LB 


UC-NRLF 


GIFT  OF 


\JTLT    A 

SEP  £2  1914 


SCHOOL    LAW 


NT 

(UNIVERSITY 

*" 


Containing  the  Laws  Enacted   by  the 
Legislature  of    1913 


RELATING  TO 


Common  Schools,  Free  High  Schools,  State  Graded  Schools, 

The  State  University,  County  Training  Schools,  County 

Agricultural  Schools,  Teachers'  Institutes,  Industrial 

and    Continuation    Schools,  and    County 

and    City    Superintendents 


Compiled  and  published  under  the  direction  of 
C.  P.  GABY,  State  Superintendent. 


MADISON,  WISCONSIN 

DEMOCRAT  PBINTINO  COMPANY,  SXATE  PBINTEB 

1913. 


SCHOOL      LAW 


SUPPLEMENT 


Containing    the    Laws    Enacted    by    the 
Legislature  of    1913 


RELATING  TO 


Common  Schools,  Free  High  Schools,  State  Graded  Schools, 

The  State  University,  County  Training  Schools,  County 

Agricultural  Schools,  Teachers'  Institutes,  Industrial 

and    Continuation    Schools,   and    County 

and    City    Superintendents 


Compiled  and  published  under  the  direction  of 
C.  P.  GABY,  State  Superintendent, 


MADISON,  WISCONSIN 
PK?NT?NG  COMPANY,  STUTE  PRINTER 
1913. 


TO  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  OFFICERS 


This  supplement  to  the  school  code  of  1911  is  made  neces- 
sary because  of  the  many  laws  touching  upon  educational  mat- 
ters enacted  by  the  legislature  of  1913.  It  will  be  noticed  that 
many  of  the  laws  in  this  pamphlet  refer  to  certain  sections 
of  the  laws  of  1911,  consequently  it  will  be  necessary,  to  use 
this  pamphlet  in  some  cases  with  the  last  complete  edition  of 
the  school  code,  (1911),  in  studying  out  or  in  attempting  to 
arrive  at  a  satisfactory  conclusion  in  some  of  these  acts. 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  legislators  acted  in  sympathy  with 
the  movement  for  the  consolidation  of  school  districts.  One 
chapter — 380 — offers  a  direct  bonus  to  school  districts  that  will 
unite  or  consolidate  and  thereafter  maintain  a  consolidated 
school.  Another  chapter  fixes  a  minimum  wage  of  $40,  the 
least  that  can  be  paid  to  any  teacher  in  the  public  schools. 
It  is  probable  that  the  legislature  looked  upon  this  measure  as 
one  that  would  induce  the  consolidation  of  a  number  of  small 
districts  because  of  the  annual  increased  expense  of  mainten- 
ance. In  other  words,  they  deemed  that  this  act  would  be  an 
incentive  to  discontinue  small  district  schools.  There  are  other 
chapters  relating  to  qualifications  of  teachers  that  will  be  of 
interest  to  the  teaching  force.  Especial  attention  is  called  to 
the  chapter  providing  for  the  establishment  of  a  teachers' 
training  department  in  connection  with  the  high  schools  of 
this  state. 

Inducements  are  offered  for  the  establishment  of  short  win- 
ter terms  of  school  to  be  maintained  in  connection  with  high 
schools. 

The  state  graded  schools  have  received  consideration,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  in  any  such  school  where  agriculture  and  some 
other  industrial  subject  is  taught  efficiently,  the  district  may 
receive  another  $100  of  special  aid.  This  makes  it  possible  for 


293^60 


2  TO  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  OFFICERS. 

state  graded  schools  of  the  second  class  to  receive  annually 
$300,  instead  of  $200  as  heretofore;  and  state  graded  schools 
of  the  first  class  to  receive  $400  instead  of  $300. 

The  high  schools  also  received  attention,  inasmuch  as  a  sub- 
stantial increase  of  the  amount  of  state  aid  has  been  provided 
for  them. 

The  attention  of  school  district  clerks  is  especially  called  to 
chapter  448,  as  amended  by  chapter  763.  The  attention  of 
school  district  officers  and  electors  is  especially  called  to  that 
part  of  chapter  448  which  goes  into  effect  the  first  of  January 
1914,  requiring  the  annual  district  meetings  in  country  school 
districts  to  be  held  on  the  first  Monday  of  June. 

It  must  be  remembered  that  in  interpreting  conflicting  stat- 
utes, the  rule  is  that  the  last  numbered  chapter  in  all  cases 
where  there  are  conflicting  provisions,  has  the  right  of  way. 

This  department  stands  ready  at  all  times  to  give  informa- 
tion concerning  the 'provisions  of  the  laws  relating1  to  schools 
and  educational  work  generally.  Electors  of  school  districts, 
as  well  as  members  of  school  boards  may  rest  assured  of  the 
coopers  lion  of  this  department  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the 
educational  interests  of  the  state. 


State  Superintendent. 


SCHOOL  LAWS   ENACTED  BY   THE 
LEGISLATURE  OF  1913. 


School  Boards — Milwaukee  Schools.  Section  17.  Whenever  the 
board  of  school  directors  shall  deem  it  necessary  to  erect  new  build- 
ings or  additions  to  old  buildings,  or  to  purchase  school  sites,  they 
shall  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members,  send  a  communication  to 
the  common  council  of  said  city,  at  or  before  the  first  meeting  of 
the  council  in  November  in  each  year,  stating  the  amount  of  funds 
so  needed  and  the  purposes  for  which  it  is  proposed  to  use  the  said 
funds,  and  requesting  the  said  common  council  to  submit  to  the 
voters  of  said  city  at  the  next  election  of  any  sort  to  be  held  in 
said  city  the  question  of  issuing  the  school  bonds  of  said  city  in 
the  amount  and  for  the  purpose  or  purposes  named;  and  upon 
receipt  of  such  request  from  the  board  of  school  directors  it  shall 
be  and  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  said  common  council  to 
cause  the  question  of  the  issuance  of  the  said  bonds  for  the  said 
school  purposes  to  be  submitted  to  the  voters  of  the  said  city  at 
the  next  regular,  special  or  other  election  held  in  the  said  city. 
The  question  of  the  issuance  of  the  said  school  bonds  shall  be  sub- 
mitted upon  a  separate  ballot,  or  in  some  other  manner  so  that 
the  vote  upon  the  issuance  of  said  school  bonds  shall  be  taken 
separately  from  any  other  question  submitted  to  the  voters  at  the 
same 'election,  and  if  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  upon  such  bond 
proposition  shall  be  in  favor  of  the  issuance  of  said  bonds,  then 
the  common  council  of  said  city  shall  cause  such  school  bonds  to 
be  issued  forthwith  in  the  same  manner  as  other  bonds  which  have 
been  properly  authorized  are  issued,  and  the  proper  officials  of  the 
said  city  shall  sell  or  dispose  of  the  said  bonds  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  other  bonds  are  disposed  of  and  the  entire  proceeds  of  the 
same  shall  be  placed  in  the  city  treasury,  subject  to  the  order  of 
the  said  board  of  school  directors,  for  the  purposes  named  in  the 
request  for  the  issuance  of  the  said  bonds.  Said  school  bonds 
shall  not  bear  a  greater  rate  of  interest  than  *  *  *  live  per 
cent  per  annum,  and  shall  be  payable  in  twenty  years  from  the 


4  gCtiOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

date  of  their  issue,  one-twentieth  of  the  principal  to  be  payable 
each  year,  and  the  said  common  council  is  hereby  authorized  and 
it  is  made  their  duty  to  levy  and  collect  a  tax  upon  all  properi y, 
real  and  personal,  in  the  said  city  subject  to  taxation,  in  the  same 
manner  and  at -the  same  time  UH  other  taxes  are  levied  and  collected, 
which  shall  be  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  on  all  school  bonds 
outstanding,  issued  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  to  pay 
such  part  of  the  principal  of  such  school  bonds  so  issued  as  be- 
comes due  and  payable  during  the  next  fiscal  year.  The  amount  of 
such  school  bonds  outstanding  at  any  one  time  shall  not  be  greater 
than  one  per  cent  of  the  total  assessed  valuation  of  all  property, 
real  and  personal,  in  the  said  city  subject  to  taxation,  and  the 
tax  levied  to  pay  the  interest  on  and  the  principal  of  the  said  school 
bonds  shall  be  in  addition  to  the  tax  levied  for  general  purposes 
upon  all  the  taxable  property  of  said  city.  (11)13  c.  J/) 
This  chapter  relates  to  Milwaukee  only. 

Distribution  of  Blue  Books.  (Section  20.84.)  (12)  Of  the  Wis- 
consin blue  book,  one  copy  to  each  state  officer  other  than  member 
of  the  legislature,  to  each  member,  *  *  *  officer,  employe  of  the 
next  succeeding  legislature,  and  employe  of  the  state  capitol,  to  each 
charitable,  penal  and  reformatory  institution,  each  judge,  and 
clerk  and  district  attorney  of  the  United  States  courts  within  the 
state,  each  senator  and  representative  in  congress  and  each  member 
elect  as  such,  the  state  dairyman's  association,  the  academy  of 
sciences,  arts,  and  letters,  each  newspaper  applying  therefor  whose 
name  is  listed  therein,  and  the  home  office  of  the  Wisconsin  Hu- 
mane society;  ten  copies  each  to  the  state  library,  university 
library,  university  law  library,  and  the  state  historical  society;  one 
copy  each  to  each  public  library,  school,  academy,  and  college  ap- 
plying therefor;  to  the  adjutant  general  for  the  use  of  the  national 
guard,  fifty  copies;  to  the  county  clerk  of  each  county  enough  copies 
to  enable  him  to  deliver  one  copy  to  the  following  officers  in  his 
county:  the  judge  and  clerk  of  each  court  of  record,  the  county 
clerk,  district  attorney,  county  superintendent  of  schools,  chairman 
of  the  county  board,  and  clerk  of  each  city;  and  to  each  member 
of  the  legislature  two  hundred  and  fifty  copies,  to  be  delivered  to 
himself,  and  to  each  officer  of  the  legislature,  fifty  copies  to  be 
delivered  to  himself,  and  to  each  employe  of  the  legislature  one  copy. 
(1913  c.  6) 

Under  this  statute  each  public  school  district  is  entitled  to 
one  copy  of  the  Blue  Book.  This  may  be  obtained  without 
cost  by  making  application  therefor  to  the  Superintendent  of 
Public  Property,  Madison,  Wisconsin. 


BLUE  BOOKS — HIGH  SCHOOL  MEETINGS.  5 

Dissolution  of  Union  High  School  Districts.  Section  495 — 6m. 
When  any  union  free  high  school  is  established  and  organized,  such 
union  free  high  school  district  shall  not  be  dissolved  nor  shall  its 
certificate  of  organization  be  surrendered  within  four  years  from 
the  date  when  such  district.  w:t.s  established  and  organized.  (1913 
c.  V) 

High  School  District  Meetings  in  certain  cases.  Section  493c.  1. 
The  annual  district  meeting  for  the  election  of  officers  and  the 
transaction  of  other  business  of  high  school  districts,  organized 
as  provided  in  section  490,  in  cities  of  the  fourth  class  containing 
not  more  than  4,000  inhabitants,  which  include  within  their  limits 
the  whole  or  a  portion  of  two  different  common  school  districts, 
shall  be  held  on  the  last  Monday  in  June  at  seven  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon,  unless  another  hour  be  fixed  by  a  vote  recorded  at  a 
previous  annual  or  special  meeting. 

2.  The  clerk  shall  give  at  least  six  days  previous  notice  of  the 
annual  meeting  by  posting  notices  thereof  in  four  or  more  public 
places  in  the  district,  one  of   which  shall  be  affixed  to  the  outer 
door  of  all  public  schoolhouses  within  the   district;    and  he  shall 
give  like  notice  for  any  adjourned  meeting  if  the  adjournment  be 
for  more  than  one  month;  but  no  annual  meeting  shall  be  deemed 
illegal  for  want  of  the  notice,  unless  it  shall  appear  that  the  omis- 
sion to  give  such  notice  was  wilful  and  fraudulent. 

3.  Special   district   meetings   may  be   called  by  the  high   school 
district  board  when  deemed  necessary,  and  shall  be  called  by  the 
clerk,  or  in  his  absence  by  the  director  or  treasurer  on  the  written 
request  of  ten  legal  voters  of  the  district.     At  least  six  day's  pre- 
vious notice  of  any  such  special  meeting  shall  be  given  by  posting 
notices,  specifying  particularly  the  business  to  be  transacted,  in  four 
or  more  public  places  in  the  district,  one  of  which  shall  be  affixed 
to   the   outer   door  of  every   public   schoolhouse  within  such   high 
school  district.     Any  such  special  meeting  may  be  adjourned  and 
like   notice   of   such   adjourned   meeting   shall   be   given.     No   tax, 
loan  or  debt  shall  be  voted  at  a  special  meeting  unless  notice  there- 
of, stating  the  time,  place  and  object  of  such  meeting  and  specify- 
ing the  maximum  amount  to  be  voted,  be  posted  in  six  public  places 
in  said  district  including  one   upon  the  outer  door  of  each  public 
schoolhouse  therein  and  published  in  all  public  newspapers  in  such 
district  at  least  six  days  before  such  meeting,  or  unless  three-fourths 
of  the  legal  voters  of  such  district  shall  have  been  notified,  either 
personally  or  by  leaving  such  notice  at  their  places  of  residence 
at  least  six  days  before  the  time  for  such  meeting. 


6  SCHOOL  LAW  SUPPLEMENT,    19ll 

4.  The  inhabitants  of  any  such  high  school  district  qualified  by 
by  law  to  vote  at  a  school  district  meeting,  when  assembled  at  the 
first  and  at  each  annual  meeting  in   their   district,  or  at  any  ad- 
journed meeting  thereof  in  such  a  district,  shall  have  all  the  power 
relative  to  their  district  conferred  by  section  430  upon  inhabitants 
of   common   school    districts   at   annual   meetings   relative   to   such 
common  school  districts;    but  shall  not  be  limited  in  the  amount 
of  tax  to  be  voted  for  teachers'  wages  by  the  limitation  provided  in 
subdivision  6  of  said  section  430. 

5.  For  the  purpose  of  purchasing  a  schoolhouse  site  and  provid- 
ing  for  and   aiding  in   the  erection   of   high   school  buildings   and 
furnishing  and  equipping  the  same  and  maintaining  a  high  school, 
any  such  school  district  may,  by  vote  of  the  electors  at  an  annual 
or  special   district  meeting  called   for  that  purpose,  authorize  the 
high  school  board  to  purchase  a  site  for  schoolhouse  and  to  erect  a 
high  school  building  thereon  and  furnish  and  equip  the  same  and 
to  borrow  money  to  an  amount  which  shall  not,  in  any  way,  exceed 
the  limitation  now  provided  by  law. 

The  resolution  to  be  voted  to  borrow  money  shall  be  in  writing 
and  shall  specify  the  amount  to  be  borrowed,  the  maximum  rate  of 
interest  allowed  to  be  paid  and  the  time  and  manner  of  payment, 
which  shall  be  in  annual  installments  or  otherwise,  the  last  of  which 
shall  be  payable  in  not  to  exceed  twenty  years  from  the  first  day 
of  February  next  succeeding.  By  such  resolution  a  tax,  to  be 
annually  collected,  in  addition  to  all  other  taxes,  sufficient  to  pay 
•when  due,  the  interest  annually  to  grow  due  on  any  such  loan;  and 
also  to  pay  and  discharge  the  principal  thereof  by  the  time  the 
same  shall  be  due,  shall  be  levied.  Such  resolution  shall  be  read 
to  the  meeting  and  the  vote  taken  thereon  by  ballot;  the  ballots 
shall  be  written  or  printed,  those  in  favor  of  the  loan  "For  the  loan," 
those  opposed  "Against  the  loan."  The  resolution  and  the  vote 
shall  be  recorded.  If  a  majority  of  the  ballots  cast  shall  be  in 
favor  of  the  loan,  the  high  school  board  may  borrow  such  sum  of 
any  person  on  such  terms  and  execute  and  deliver  to  the  lender 
such  obligation  therefor  and  such  security  for  payment,  including  a 
mortgage  or  pledge  of  real  or  personal  property  of  the  district, 
subject  to  the  direction  contained  in  the  resolution  by  voting,  as 
may  be  agreed  upon,  not  prohibited  by  law;  or  they  may  issue  bonds 
of  such  high  school  district  to  the  amount  and  according  to  the 
directions  authorized  by  such  resolution  and  sell  same  for  the  pur- 
pose of  raising  money  for  the  object  stated  therein.  Any  bond  or 
other  obligation  so  issued  by  any  high  school  district  board  in  con- 
formity to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be  valid  claims  against 
the  high  school  district  authorizing  the  same. 


CONDEMNATION  OF  SCHOOL  BUILDINGS.  7 

6.  The  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  such  bonds  or  obligations  shall  be 
paid  into  the  high  school  treasury  and  be  expended  only  for  the 
purpose   for   which   the   same   were  voted.     After  any   such   bonds 
or  obligations  have  been  issued,  no  power  shall  exist  to  rescind  or 
reconsider  any  such  vote  or  obstruct  the  collection  of  such  tax. 

7.  The  purchase   of   the   high  school  site  and  the  erection  of   a 
high  school  building,  when  authorized  as  provided  in  this  act,  shall 
be  conducted  by  the  high  school  board.     (1913  c.  16) 

This  statute  applies  to  two  or  three  cities  only  in  the  state. 

Condemnation  of  School  Buildings.  Section  517.  1.  The  in- 
spector of  rural  schools,  the  inspectors  of  state  graded  schools,  and 
the  inspector  of  high  schools  of  the  state,  in  addition  to  their  other 
duties  are  hereby  made  inspectors  of  public  school  buildings.  Said 
inspectors  shall  act  under  the  direction  of  the  state  superintendent, 
and  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  established  by  him. 

2.  Whenever  any  county  or  district  superintendent,  city  superin- 
tendent, member  of  a  school  board  or  board  of  education,  or  any 
voter  of  a  school  district,  or  a  member  of  a  board  of  health,  shall 
make  a  complaint  in  writing  to  the  state  superintendent  that  any 
building  used   for  or  in  connection  with   any  public  school  in  his 
county,  district,  city,  village,  or  town,  as  the  case  may  be,  is  in  an 
unsanitary    condition,    or   that   the    conditions    are    such    as    to    en- 
danger the  life  and  health  of  the  children  attending  school,  or  that 
the  school  house  is  unfit  for  school  purposes,  one  of  said  inspectors 
designated  by  the  state  superintendent  shall  personally  investigate 
and    examine    the    premises    and    buildings    concerning    which   said 
complaint  is  made. 

3.  Upon  such  investigation  and  examination  said  inspector  shall, 
if  conditions  warrant  it,  make  an  order  directing  the  school  board, 
the  board  of  education,  or  other  officer  or  officers  having  control 
of  the  school  district  or  school  corporation,  to  repair  and  improve 
such  building  or  buildings  as  may  be  necessary,  and  to  place  said 
buildings  in  a  safe  and  sanitary  condition;  or  if  said  inspector  shall 
deem  the  schoolhouse  unfit  for  school  purposes  and  not  worth  re- 
pairing he  shall  state  said  fact  and  recite  the  reason  therefor. 

4.  The  said  inspector  shall   file  said  order  in   the  state  superin- 
tendent's office,  and  cause  'true   copies  thereof  to  be  delivered,  by 
mail  or  otherwise,  to  the  clerk  of  the  district  board,  the  clerk  of 
the  board  of  education  of  the  district  or  school  corporation  where 
such   schoolhouse   and   premises    are   located,    and   shall    deliver   as 
provided  herein  copies  of  said  order  to  the  proper  county,  district  or 
city  superintendent,  and  also  the  clerk  of  the  town,  city,  or  village 
jn  which  the  school  house  is  located. 


8  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

5.  The  said  order  shall  state  the  time  in  which  it  shall  be  com- 
plied with,  and  shall  take  effect  from  its  date,  and  shall  continue 
in  force  and  full  effect  until  reversed.     The  decision  of  the  inspec- 
tor may  be  appealed  from  to  the  state  superintendent  in  the  time 
and  manner  now  provided  for  taking  appeals  to   said  superintendent, 
and  the  decision  appealed  from  shall  be  stayed,  pending  such  ap- 
peal. 

6.  Whenever  any  school  district,  school  corporation,  school  board, 
or  board  of   education,   shall  refuse  to   comply  with   the  order  of 
said  inspector  within  the  time  herein  specified,  such  school  district 
or  schodi  corporation  shall  forfeit  absolutely  its  apportionment  of 
the  fund   derived  from  the  seven-tenths   mill  tax,  provided  for  in 
section  1072a  of  the  statutes,  and  amendments  thereto,  and  shall 
continue  to  so  forfeit  its  regular  apportionment  of  such  fund  until 
there  is  full  compliance  with  the  requirements  of  said  order,  unless 
the  electors  of  said  school  district  shall  vote  to  instruct  the  school 
board  to  close  the  district  school  and  provide  transportation  and 
tuition  for  all  children  of  school  age  in  the  district  desiring  to  at- 
tend school  at  some  neighboring  school  or  schools,  as  provided  for 
in  section  496q  of  the  statutes. 

7.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  deemed  to  interfere  with  the 
operation   of  the  provision  of  subsection   3   of  section   461   of  the 
statutes,  relating  to  the  duties  of  county  superintedents  of  schools 
or  with  the  provisions  of  section  1418b  of  the  statutes,  relating  to 
the  inspection  and  regulation  of  the  sanitary  conditions  of  school- 
houses  by  boards  of  health. 

Section  2.  All  acts,  orders,  and  decisions  rendered  under  the 
provisions  of  and  made  since  the  passage  and  publication  of  sec- 
tions 524m — 1,  524m — 2,  524m — 3,  524m — 4,  524m — 5,  524m— 6, 
and  524m — 7  of  chapter  550,  laws  of  1909,  are  legalized  and  vali- 
dated. (1913  c.  30) 

This  chapter  makes  it  an  easy  matter  to  secure  an  inspection 
of  school  buildings,  but  it  is  hoped  that  electors  and  members 
of  school  boards  will  take  such  measures  to  secure  convenient 
and  comfortable  buildings  for  school  purposes  that  the  services 
of  the  inspectors  may  be  seldom  demanded. 

Training  School  for  oral  teachers  of  the  deaf.  Section  579p.  1. 
The  board  of  regents  of  normal  schools  is  hereby  authorized  and 
directed  to  establish  and  maintain  a  department  in  one  of  the  nor- 
mal schools  of  the  state,  located  in  a  city  maintaining  a  graded  school 

for  the  deaf,  to  be  known  as   a   normal   training   department  for 

.— *,, 

oral  teachers  of  the  deaf. 

2.  Candidates  for  admission  to  this  course  shall  have  completed 
at  least  one  year  of  the  advanced  course  in  a  state  normal  school 


DEAF  SCHOOL — COUNTY  TAX — TOBACCO.        f) 

or  its  equivalent.  Graduates  from  said  course  shall  be  granted  a 
diploma  by  the  board  of  regents  that  will  serve  as  a  basis  for  an 
unlimited  state  certificate,  qualifying  the  holder  to  teach  in  any 
day  school  for  the  deaf  in  this  state,  or  in  any  public  hearing  school 
of  the  state,  below  high  school  grade. 

3.  An  annual  appropriation  of  five  thousand  dollars  or  such  part 
of  five  thousand  dollars  as  shall  be  necessary  to  carry  on  this  work, 
shall  be  made  from  the  general  funds  of  the  state  for  the  purpose 
of  maintaining  this  department;  said  appropriation  to  be  disbursed 
under  the  direction  of  the  board  of  regents  of  normal  schools.  (1013 
c.  48) 

High  school  graduates  may  complete  this  course  in  two  years. 

A  student  who  has  completed  one  year  of  the  regular  advanced 

normal  course  may  graduate  in  one  year. 

The  diploma  of  graduation  from  this  course  legally  qualifies 

the  holder  to  teach  in  any  public  day  school  for  the  deaf,  and  in 

other  respects  possesses  the  value  of  a  diploma  from  the  regular 

normal  school  course  except  that  it  is  not  a  legal  qualification 

to  teach  in  a  high  school. 

All  requests  for  further  information  relating  to  this  special 

training  should  be  directed  to  the  president  of  the  Milwaukee 

State  Normal  School. 

Tax  to  be  received  by  school  districts   from   county  farm   lands. 

(Section  670)  (18)  To  appropriate  to  any  school  district  in  which 
a  county  farm  or  any  part  thereof  is  situated,  an  amount  of  money 
for  school  purposes  equal  to  the  amount  that  would  be  paid  as 
school  taxes  upon  such  farm  land  or  part  thereof  situated  within 
such  district  if  such  land  were  privately  owned.  The  valuation  of 
such  farm  land  shall  be  determined  by  the  county  board  of  equali- 
zation. (1013  c.  70) 

This  chapter  provides  relief  for  any  school  district  in  which 
all  or  any  part  of  a  county  farm  is  situated.  Taxes  may  now 
be  collected  from  the  county  upon  the  assessed  valuation  fixed 
upon  the  farm  lands  by  the  county  board  of  equalization.  Land 
valuations  only  are  to  be  considered.  Buildings  and  other  im- 
provements are  not  to  be  counted  in  making  the  estimate. 

Use  of  Tobacco  forbidden  in  certain  cases.  Section  4608v. 
Every  person  who  shall  sell  or  give  to  any  person  under  the  age  of 
sixteen  years,  a  cigar,  cr  tobacco  in  any  -form,  without  the  written 
consent  of  the  parent  or  guardian  of  such  minor,  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dol- 
lars for  each  offense,  and  every  person  under  the  age  of  sixteen 
years  who  shall  smoke  or  use  cigarettes,  cigars  or  tobacco  on  any 
public  road,  street,  alley  or  park  or  other  lands  used  for  public  pur- 
poses or  in  any  public  place  of  business  or  amusement,  except  when 
in  the  company  of  a  parent  or  guardian,  shall  be  punished  by  a 


10  SCHOOL   .LAW    SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

t 

fine   of   not  more  than   ten  dollars   or  by   imprisonment  for   not  ex- 
ceeding thirty  days.     (1913  c.  ~8) 

This  measure  does  not  apply  with  any  more  force  to  school 
buildings  than  it  does  to  other/  public  buildings.  It  is,  how- 
ever, placed  here  in  order  that  its  provisions  may  be  generally 
known  by  children  and  their  parents  and  by  compliance  with  its 
provisions  the  infliction  of  penalties  be  avoided. 

Trained  nurse  may  be  employed  by  counties.  Section  697 — 10m. 
The  board  of  supervisors  of  any  county  is  authorized  and  empowered 
to  employ  a  graduate  trained  nurse,  whose  duties  shall  be  as  fol- 
lows: To  act  as  a  consulting  expert  on  hygiene  for  all  schools 
not  already  having  medical  inspection  either  by  physician  or  visit- 
ing nurse,  to  assist  the  superintendents  of  the  poor  in  their  care  of 
the  poor  in  the  county  who  are  in  need  of  her  services;  to  give  in- 
struction to  tuberculosis  patients  and  others  relative  to  hygienic 
measures  to  be  observed  in  preventing  the  spread  of  tuberculosis; 
to  aid  in  making  a  report  of  existing  cases  of  tuberculosis;  to  act 
as  visiting  nurse  throughout  the  county  and  to  perform  such  other 
duties  as  a  nurse  and  hygienic  expert  as  may  be  assigned  to  her  by 
the  county  board.  Such  visiting  nurse  shall  at  the  end  of  each 
month  make  a  report  in  writing  to  the  county  clerk,  which  report 
shall  show  the  visits  made  during  the  month  then  ending  and  the 
requests  made  to  her  for  services,  and  such  other  information  as 
the  county  board  may  from  time  to  time  require.  (1913  c.  93) 

This  statute  is  entirely  new.  Its  provisions  need  no  explana- 
tion. 

Compensation  of  school  district  clerks.  (Section  430)  (18)  At 
the  annual  meeting  only,  to  vote  a  tax  to  compensate  the  clerk, 
treasurer  and  director,  which  in  districts  supporting  graded  and 
high  schools  shall  be  such  sums  as  may  be  voted,  and  in  other 
districts  the  compensation  of  the  clerk  shall  be  such  sum  as  may 
be  voted,  but  shall  not  exceed  twenty  dollars  per  annum,  provided 
that  his  current  annual  report  to  the  town  or  village  clerk  shall  be 
approved  by  the  tyvcn  or  village  clerk  to  whom  it  is  rendered;  and 
the  compensation  of  the  treasurer  and  the  director  shall  be  such  sum 
as  shall  be  voted,  but  shall  not  exceed  ten  dollars  per  annum.  * 
(19J3  c.  94) 

This  chapter  is  repealed  by  chapters  488  and  765,  laws  of 
1913. 

Joint  county  training  schools.  Section  411 — 9.  Such  joint 
county  training  school  shall  choose  a  member  of  said  board  as 
treasurer;  provided  that  the  person  so  chosen  shall  not  be  presi- 
dent or  secretary  of  such  board.  Such  treasurer  shall,  before  as- 


NURSE—TRAINING  SCHOOLS— LIBRARY.  H 

suming  his  office,  give  a  bond  to  said  board  for  the  faithful  discharge 
of  the  duties  of  his  office.  Such  bond  shall  be  in  the  sum  of  fifteen 
thousand  dollars  and  shall  have  three  or  more  sureties  approved  by 
said  board;  or  said  treasurer,  in  lieu  of  said  bond  so  signed  by 
said  three  sureties,  may  give  surety  bond  to  be  approved  by  said 
board,  and  the  cost  of  said  surety  bond  may  be  paid  for  out  of  the 
funds  of  said  joint  training  school  in  the  discretion  of  the  board. 
All  moneys  appropriated  to  and  expended  for  any  such  joint  county 
training  school  shall  be  expended  by  the  board  of  such  school  and 
shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer  of  said  school  on  orders  drawn  by 
the  secretary  and  countersigned  by  the  president. 

(Section  411 — 7)  1.  The  county  boards  of  two  or  more  adjoin- 
ing counties  may  unite  in  establishing  and  maintaining  a  training 
school  for  teachers  for  the  purposes  and  on  the  same  general  plan 
as  provided  for  in  section  411 — 1  to  411 — 6,  inclusive,  of  the 
statutes,  and  may  appropriate  money  for  its  maintenance,  and 
whenever  two  or  more  counties  unite  in  establishing  such  a  school, 
the  county  superintendents  of  the  counties  so  uniting  and  two 
members  in  addition  chosen  from  each  such  county,  no  member 
of  any  county  board  being  eligible  thereto,  shall  constitute  the 
joint  county  training  school  board.  *  *  *  The  members  of  the 
board  chosen  by  the  county  boards  of  supervisors  shall  choose  one 
of  the  county  superintendents  of  the  counties  uniting  to  maintain9 
the  school  as  secretary  of  the  county  training  school  board.  (1913 
c.  105) 

The  sections  referred  to  above  will  be  found  on  pages  37—39 
of  the  School  laws  for  1911. 

Exchange  of  school  library  books.  Section  486 — 1.  1.  School 
library  books  belonging  to  one  school  district  may  be  loaned  by  the 
school  board  of  the  district  to  the  school  board  of  another  school 
district  for  use  in  the  school  library  of  that  district  in  considera- 
tion of  school  library  books  similarly  loaned  in  exchange  therefor. 

2.  County    or    district    superintendents    may    arrange    such    ex- 
changes and  loans  of  school  library  books  among  the  school  dis- 
tricts in  their  jurisdiction  as  may  be  mutually  agreed  upon  by  the 
school  boards  of  the  districts  concerned,- 

3.  A  school  district  receiving  books  from  another  district  under 
the  provisions  of   this  act  shall  be  responsible  for  all   losses  sus- 
tained on  account  of  books  lost  or  damaged  beyond  ordinary  wear 
and  tear. 

4.  All  books  loaned  or  exchanged  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act  shall  be  returned  to  the  school  library  from  which  they  have 
been  obtained  not  later  than  two  weeks  before  the  close  of  the  an- 


12  SCHOOL  LAW  SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

nual  school  term  of  the  district  from  which  the  books  have  been 
received.     (1913  c.  101) 

The  purpose  of  this  chapter  is  to  provide  a  larger  amount  of 
reading  for  children  by  enlarging  the  use  of  the  public  school 
libraries. 

Itemized  report  of  receipts,  etc.  to  be  published  by  town  and 
union  high  school  boards.  Section  496c — 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  school  board  of  every  town  high  school,  and  union  free  high 
school  in  the  state,  to  publish,  or  cause  to  be  published,  or  posted 
in  five  prominent  places,  during  the  week  preceding  the  annual 
meeting,  a  summarized  financial  report  of  receipts  and  disburse- 
ments for  the  preceding  year  for  such  district,  and  the  recommend- 
ations for  the  following  year,  in  a  newspaper  published  within  the 
town,  city  or  village  where  such  school  is  located;  said  report  not 
to  exceed  five  folios,  and  in  case  there  is  no  newspaper  published 
within  such  town,  city  or  village,  then  such  report  shall  be  pub- 
lished in  any  newspaper  having  a  general  circulation  in  such  town, 
city  or  village,  and  published  within  the  county  where  such  school 
is  located.  (1913  c.  109) 

This  chapter  does  not  include  district  free  high  schools. 

State  flag.  Section  98m.  1.  The  Wisconsin  state  flag  is  of  dark 
blue  silk/  five  feet  six  inches  fly  and  four  feet  four  inches  on  the 
pike;  the  state  coat  of  arms  embroidered  on  each  side  with  silk 
of  appropriate  colors  and  design  as  prescribed  in  section  98;  the 
edges  trimmed  with  knotted  fringe  of  yellow  silk  two  and  one- 
half  inches  wide;  the  pike  nine  feet  long  including  spearhead  and 
ferrule,  the  cord  eight  feet  six  inches  long  with  two  tassels,  and 
composed  of  blue  and  white  silk  strands  intermixed. 

2.  Service  flags  may  be  of  bunting  or  other  material,  of  such 
size  as  may  be  required,  and  the  coat  of  arms  represented  other- 
wise than  by  embroidery,  all  conforming  to  proportionate  specifi- 
cations of  subsection  1.  (1913  c.  Ill) 

Wider  use  of  school  buildings.  (Section  435d)  2.  Where  the 
citizens  of  any  community  are  organized  into  a  nonpartisan,  non- 
sectarian,  nonexclusive  association  for  the  presentation  and  dis- 
cussion of  public  questions  or  for  the  promotion  of  public  health  6r/ 
giving  instruction  in  any  topic  relating  thereto  or  in  physical  culture 
and  hygiene  or  by  the  practicing  of  physical  exercises  and  the  pres- 
entation and  discussion  of  topics  relating  thereto,  the  school  board 
or  other  body  having  charge  of  the  schoolhouses  or  other  public  prop- 
erties which  are  capable  of  being  used  as  meeting  places  for  such 
organization,  when  not  being  used  for  their  prime  purpose,  shall  pro- 


HEFORT— FLAG— TEACHERS    EXAMINATIONS.  13 

vide,  free  of  charge,  light,  heat  and  janitor  service,  where  necessary, 
and  shall  make  such  other  provisions  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
free  and  convenient  use  of  such  building  or  grounds,  by  such  organi- 
zation for  weekly,  biweekly  or  monthly  gatherings  at  such  times  as 
the  citizens'  organization  shall  request  or  designate.  All  such  gather- 
ings shall  be  free  to  the  public.  (1913  c.  123) 

This  enlarges  section  435d,  laws  of  1911,  by  giving  the  usa 
of  the  school  building  to  an  association_  or  club  interested  in 
physical  culture  training  and  the  study  of  the  laws  of  health. 

Section  repealed.  Section  1.  Section  450  of  the  statutes  is  re- 
pealed. (1013  c.  129} 

This  section  related  to  examinations  given  by  county  super- 
intendents for  teachers'  certificates  and  is  repealed  because  it 
almost  exactly  duplicates  section  450 — 1,  relating  to  the  same 
subject  and  which  still  stands. 

Examinations  for  teachers'  certificates.  (Section  450 — 1)  1. 
Every  applicant  for  a  third  grade  certificate  shall  be  examined  in 
orthoepy,  spelling,  reading,  penmanship,  arithmetic,  elementary 
composition  and  grammar,  geography,  the  history  of  the  United 
States,  the  civil  government  of  the  United  States  and  of  the  state 
of  Wisconsin,  physiology  and  hygiene  with  special  reference  to  the 
effects  of  stimulants  and  narcotics  upon  the  human  system,  school 
management,  the  manual  of  the  elementary  course  of  study  for  the 
common  schools  of  Wisconsin,  *  *  *  the  elements  of  agricul- 
ture and  rural  economics,  and  after  January  1,  1915,  in  the  cata- 
loging and  use  of  school  libraries;  and  in  addition  to  passing  ex- 
aminations in  the  aforesaid  branches,  he  shall  have  attended  a  pro- 
fessional school  for  teachers  for  at  least  six  weeks  and  shall  have 
received  in  such  school  standings  in  school  management,  and  in  the 
methods  of  teaching  reading  and  language,  arithmetic  and  geog- 
raphy, provided,  however,  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  rela- 
tive to  attendance  at  professional  schools  for  teachers  shall  not 
apply  to  persons  who  have  taught  successfully  in  the  public  schools 
for  at  least  eight  months  prior  to  July  1,  1910,  nor  to  graduates 
from  free  high  school  teachers'  training  courses  which  had  been 
especially  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  prior  to  July  1, 
1910,  nor  to  graduates  from  teachers'  training  courses  equivalent 
thereto,  which,  since  July  1,  1910,  have  been,  or  which  in  the  fu- 
ture may  be,  adopted  by  any  high  school  board  or  board  of  edu- 
cation, and  approved  by  the  state  superintendent.  (1913  c.  144} 

This  requires  that  county  superintendents  shall  examine  teach- 
ers in  rural  economics  at  all  examinations  held  after  July  1, 
1913.  "Cataloging  and  use  of  school  libraries"  is  not  required 
until  after  January,  1915. 


14  SCHOOL  LAW  SUPPLEMENT, 

Town  and  district  school  libraries.      (Section   486a)      7.  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  county  or  district  superintendent  to  keep  on  file 
in  his  office  a  Hist  of  books  in  the  library  of  each  school  district 
and  to  arrange  such  lists  by  districts  and  towns  in  numerical  and 
alphabetical   order.     Guided   by   such    lists    and   other   information 
which   may  have  been   obtained   regarding   the   school   libraries   of 
the  school   districts   under   his   supervision,   the   county  or   district 
superintendent  shall  make  a  selection  for  each  school  district  un- 
der  his   supervision,    the   schoolhouse    of   which    is    located    in   his 
superintendent  district,  the  books  to  be  taken  from  the  lists  pre- 
pared by  the  state  superintendent.     It  shall  also  be  his  duty  to  fur- 
nish each  town  clerk,  village  clerk  and  clerk  of  cities  of  the  fourth 
class   under   his   jurisdiction   with   a   list   in   duplicate   of  the   books 
designated  for  each  district.     The  county  or  district  superintendent 
shall  also  certify  to  the  county  clerk  the  names  and   numbers  of 
the  books  selected  for  each  town,  village  or  city  of  the  fourth  class 
under  his  supervision,  the  price  fixed  in  the  list  issued  by  the  state 
superintendent  to  be  attached  in  each  case  and  the   total  cost  of 
such  books  to  be  correctly  summarized  and  indicated.     City  super- 
intendents of  cities  of  the  fourth  class  shall  in  like  manner  certify 
to  the  county  clerk  the  cost  of  the  books  selected  for  the  schools 
under  their  jurisdiction.     A   duplicate  copy   shall   be   furnished   to 
the  company  or  firm  selected  by  the  state  department  or  commis- 
sioned   to   furnish   the  books,  periodicals,   etc.,   for  township   libra- 
ries.    The  company  or  firm  shall  upon  receipt  of  the  list  from  the 
county,  district  or  city  superintendent  fill  the  order  for  each  town, 
village  or  city  of  the  fourth  class,  as  directed,  said  order  when  so 
filled  to  be  sent  to  the  town,  village  or  city  clerk.    The  town,  village,  or 
city  clerk  shall    *     *     *     within  ten  days  after  the  receipt  of  the  books 
from  the  company  or  firm  compare  the  order  so  filled,  with  the  list  in 
his  possession  and     *     *     *     report  to  the  county     *     *     *     clerk  stat- 
ing what  books  upon  the  list  theretofore  made  out  by  the  county  super- 
intendent have  been  actually  delivered  to  him  in  good  condition.    A  re- 
port shall  also  be  sent  to  the  county,  city,  or  district  superintendent. 
The  county  clerk     *     *     *     shall  within  three  days  therafter  draw  an 
order  upon  the  county  treasurer  for  the  cost  of  the  books  so    *     *     * 
actually  delivered  in  good  condition  to  each  town,  village,  or  city.     If 
the  report  is  unsatisfactory  the  proper  superintendent  shall  forthwith 
report  the  fact  and  the  cause  thereof  to  the  company  or  firm  supply- 
ing the  township  library  books.     Such  company  or  firm  shall  forthwith 
take  steps  to  rectify  any  error  or  irregularity  which  may  have  been 
made  in  the  filing  of  the  order  for  the  books  in  question.    If  the  town, 
village,  or  city  clerk  shall  fail  to  report  to  the  county,  city,  or  dis- 
trict superintendent  an$  to  the  county  clerk  as  provided  herein  within 


LIBRARIES— fiOOKS— CUPS.  15 

ten  days  after  the  receipt  of  the  books  he  shall  be  liable  to  a  fov- 
feiture  in  the  sum  \of  five  dollars,  collected  as  provided  by  law  for  the 
collection  of  other  forfeitures. 

(Section  486a)  9.  The  express,  freight  and  postage  charges  *  *  * 
on  books  purchased  under  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  paid 
by  the  town,  village  or  city  receiving  them.  (1913  c.  Uf9) 

This  chapter  makes  some  quite  important  changes  in  the  ad- 
ministration of  the  Township  Library  law.  It  is  of  especial  in- 
terest to  town,  village  and  county  clerks. 

Common  drinking  cups*  Section  1418t.  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful 
for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  to  furnish,  or  to  permit  the  use 
of,  the  common  drinking  cup  on  railroad  trains,  in  railroad  sta- 
tions, in  any  state  or  other  public  building,  on  the  streets  or  in 
public  parks,  in  the  public,  parochial  or  private  schooils  or  in  other 
educational  institutions,  in  hotels  and  lodging  houses,  theaters, 
department  stores,  barber  shops  or  in  such  other  places  or  build- 
ings in  the  state  as  the  state  board  of  health  may  find  the  use 
therein  of  the  common  drinking  cup  to  be  inimical  to  the  public 
health. 

2.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation,  owning  or  having  the  man- 
agement or  control  of  such  railroads,  buildings,  schools  or  educa- 
tional institutions  or  of  such  places  or  buildings  in  which  the  state 
board  of  health  may  find  the  use  of  the  common  drinking  cup  to 
be  inimical  to  the  public  health,  as  provided  in  this  section,  vio- 
lating any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars. 
(1913  c.  15S) 

Rebindiiig  school  library  books.  Section  486k.  1.  The  state 
superintendent  of  public  instruction,  the  secretary  of  the  free  li- 
brary commission,  and  the  attorney  general  shall  constitute  a  state 
committee  on  the  rebinding  of  school  library  books. 

2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  committee  to  make  out  during 
the  month  of  January  each  year  an  approved  list  of  firms  engaged 
in  bookbinding  to  which  school  library  books  may  be  sent  for  re- 
binding  under  the  provisions  of  this  act.  In  making  out  said  list 
the  said  committee  shall  take  into  consideration  convenience  of  lo- 
cation of  firms  doing  bookbinding,  the  character  of  their  work, 
their  financial  responsibility,  and  any  other  matter  or  matters  hav- 
ing a  bearing  on  the  satisfactory  rebinding  of  school  library  books, 
the  cost  of  rebinding,  and  the  facilities  and  cost  of  transportation 
to  and  from  the  bindery. 


16  SCHOOL  LAW  SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

3.  Before  any  bookbinding  firm  is  placed  on  said  approved  list, 
an  agreement  shall  have  been  entered  into  between  such  firm  and 
the  state  committee  on  the  rebinding  of  school  library  books  as  to 
prices  to  be  charged  for  the  rebinding  of  books  as  provided  for  by 
this  act  and  such  other  matters  as  said  committee  may   deem  es- 
sential to  the  carrying  out  of  the  intent  thereof.     Each  such  agree- 
ment shall  contain  a  clause  authorizing  said  committee  to  drop  the 
firm  from  such   approved  list  in  case  the  terms  of  the  agreement 
are  not  complied  with  by  the  firm  in  question. 

4.  During   the  last   month   of  the   annual  school  term  in   every 
school   district   coming   under   the   provisions   of   sections    486a   to 
48 6 j,  inclusive,  of  the  statutes,  known  as  the  township  library  law, 
the  teacher,  principal  or  superintendent,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall 
set  aside  those  books  in  the  school  library  or  libraries,  which  are 
in  need  of  rebinding,  and  he  shall  supply  to  the  district  clerk  a 
list  in  duplicate  of  the  titles  of  the  books  thus  set  aside,  also  a 
list  of  the  approved  bookbinding  firms,  together  with  such  other 
readily   obtainable   information   regarding   the   books   set   aside    as 
may  be  called  for  by  the  state  or  county  superintendent  on  blanks 
which  may  be  supplied  for  the  purpose.     Only  those  school  library 
books  shall  be  set  aside  for  rebinding  whose  original  cost,  whose 
value  as  school  library  books,  whose  sanitary  condition  and  condi- 
tion as  to  wear  and  tear  and  cleanliness  are  such  as,  in  the  judg- 
ment of  the  teacher,  principal  or  superintendent,  to  justify  rebind- 
ing. 

5.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  district  clerk  to  make  out  an  or- 
der for  the  payment  of  the  last  month's  salary  of  the  teacher,  prin- 
cipal or  superintendent,  as  the  case  may  be,  before  the  books  for 
rebinding,  if  there  be  any  such  books,   shall  have  been  set  aside 
and  a  list  thereof  has  been  received  by  him,  as  provided  in  the 
last   preceding  paragraph  of  this  section.     If  there  are  no   books 
needing   rebinding,   whose   cost,   value,   and   conditions  justify   re- 
binding,    then   a   written   statement   to    that   effect   signed   by   the 
teacher,   principal  or  superintendent  shall  be  substituted  for  said 
list  of  books  for  rebinding  otherwise  to  be  provided. 

6.  At  the  first  regular  or  special  meeting  of  the  school  board  af- 
ter the  clerk  has  received  the  said  list  of  books  needing  rebinding, 
he  shall  present  said  list  to  the  board   for  its  consideration  and 
the  board  shall' forthwith   take  formal  action  on  the  question  of 
having   the   books   rebound   under   the   provisions   of  this   act.     It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  school  board  to  take  action  not  later  than 
one  month  after  the  district  clerk  has  received  said  list  of  books 
needing  rebinding.     If  necessary,  a  special  meeting  shall  be  called 
for  the  purpose. 


— SALE  OF  LlQUOtl.  17 

?.  Payment  for  the  rebinding  of  school  library  books  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  made  from  any  funds  in  the  treas- 
ury of  the  school  district  not  otherwise  appropriated.  The  first 
year  any  school  district  takes  advantage  of  this  act  the  amount  ex- 
pended for  this  purpose  shall  not  exceed  an  amount  equal  to  twenty 
cents  for  each  person  of  school  age  in  the  district;  thereafter  such 
amount  shall  not  exceed  ten  cents  per  person  of  school  age  per  an- 
num in  any  one  school  district. 

8.  Lists  of  approved  "bookbinding  firms  as  provided  for  in  this  act 
shall  be  distributed  to  teachers,  principals,  and  superintendents  be- 
tween the  first  day  of  March  and  the  first  day  of  May  each  year 
in   such    manner   as   other   publications    are    distributed    from    the 
office  of  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction.     (1013  c.  116) 
A  list  of  book-binding  firms  approved  by  the  state  will  be  sent 
to  the  county  superintendents  after  next  January.     Section  4  is 
of  especial  interest  to  school  officers  and  teachers,  inasmuch  as 
it  places  upon  them  the  responsibility  of  determining  what  books 
are  in  need  of  rebinding,  what  books  are  worth  rebinding  and 
what  books  are  not.     Careful  lists  must  be  made  of  such  books. 
It  will  be  noticed  that  the  district  clerk  is  especially  authorized 
to  withhold  the  payment  of  the  last  month's  salary  of  a  teacher 
or  superintendent  if  the  books  which  are  to  be  rebound  are  not 
properly  selected,  listed,  etc. 

Meetings  of  university  regents.  Section  380a.  The  meetings  of 
the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  shall  be  open  to  the  public 
and  the  press  and  all  records  of  such  meetings  and  of  all  proceed- 
ings of  such  board  shall  be  open  to  inspection  by  the  public  and 
the  press  at  any  reasonable  hours  thereafter;  provided,  that  said 
board  may  hold  executive  sessions,  the  findings  of  said  executive 
sessions  to  be  made  a  part  of  the  records  of  the  proceedings  of  said 
board. 

Section  396a.  The  meetings  of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  nor- 
mal schools  shall  be  open  to  the  public  and  the  press  and  all  rec- 
ords of  such  meetings  and  of  all  proceedings  of  such  board  shall 
be  open  to  inspection  by  the  public  and  the  press  at  any  reasonable 
hours  thereafter;  provided,  that  said  board  may  hold  executive 
sessions,  the  findings  of  said  executive  sessions  to  be  made  a  part 
of  the  records  of  the  proceedings  of  said  board.  (1918  c.  200) 

+  Sale  of  liquor  forbidden  in  certain  cases.  Section  155 7n.  Every 
keeper  of  any  saloon,  shop,  or  place  of  any  nature  or  character 
whatsoever  for  the  sale  of  any  strong,  spirituous,  malt,  ardent,  or 
intoxicating  liquor,  who  shall  either  directly  or  indirectly  suffer 
or  permit  any  person  of  either  sex  under  the  age  of  twenty-one 
years,  unaccompanied  by  his  or  her  parent  or  guardian,  or  suffer  or 

2— S.  L. 


18  SCtiOOL  LAW  SUPPLEMENT,   19ll 

permit  any  person  to  whom  the  sale  of  any  ardent,  spirituous  or  in* 
ijxicating  liquors  \or  drinks  has  been  forbidden  in  the  manner  pro* 
bided  by  law^  who  is  not  *  *  *  a  resident,  employe,  or  a  bona  fide 
lodger  or  boarder  on  the  premises  of  such  licensed  person,  to  linger 
or  loiter  in  or  about  any  barroom  or  other  room  on  such  premises 
in  which  intoxicating  liquor  is  sold  or  dispensed,  shall  for  every  such 
offense  be  liable  to  a  penalty  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  besides 
costs,  or  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  not  exceeding  sixty  days; 
and  any  such  person  so  lingering  or  loitering,  as  aforesaid,  who  is 
not  a  resident,  employe,  or  a  bona  fide  lodger  or  boarder  on  the  prem- 
ises, or  who  is  not  accompanied  by  his  or  her  parent  or  guardian, 
shall  also  be  liable  to  a  penalty  of  not  more  than  twenty  dollars,  be- 
sides costs,  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty  days  in  the  county 
jail.  (1913  c.  204) 

While  this  is  not  properly  an  educational  law,  it  is  one  that 

should  be  widely  known  by  interested  parties  in  order  that  its 

provisions  may  be  complied  with. 

Prevention  of  accidents  to  be  taught.  Section  447g.  1.  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  each  teacher  in  a  public  school  in  the  state  of  Wis- 
consin to  devote  not  less  than  thirty  minutes  in  each  month  during 
which  such  school  is  in  session  to  instructing  the  pupils  thereof 
as  to  ways  and  means  of  preventing  accidents. 

2.  The  state   superintendent   of   public  instruction   shall  prepare 
and   publish  at  the  expense  of  the  state  a  book   conveniently  ar- 
ranged in  chapters  or  lessons  for  the  purpose  of  the  instruction  pro- 
vided  in   this   section   and   shall    furnish    a   copy   thereof    to    each 
teacher  required  to  give  such  instruction. 

3.  The    members    of    the    board    of    education,    school    directors, 
trustees,  or  other  bodies  or  persons  having  control  of  the  schools 
of  a  township,  village  or  city  shall  cause  a  copy  of  this  section  to 
be  printed  in  the  manual  or  handbook  prepared  for  the  guidance 
of  teachers,  where  such  manual  is  in  use.     (1913  c.  218) 

This  chapter  presumes  that  every  teacher  will  plan  to  give 
certain  instruction  to  the  pupils  that  shall  make  clear  to  them 
the  necessity  of  exercising  care  in  the  prevention  of  accidents. 
Since  the  "ounce  of  prevention  is  worth  a  pound  of  cure,"  it 
means  children  shall  be  taught  to  do  what  they  can  to  avoid 
causes  of  accidents.  This  statute  means  that  instruction  shall 
be  given  not  only  to  warn  the  children  against  accidents  but. 
also  instruction  in  what  to  do  if  an  accident  occurs. 

Industrial  schools — Stout  Institute.  Section  553p — 10.  The 
state  board  of  industrial  education  shall  also  constitute  a  body 
corporate  under  the  name  of  the  "Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Stout 
Institute,"  and  shall  possess  all  powers  necessary  or  convenient  to 
accomplish  the  objects  and  perform  the  duties  prescribed  by  law. 


ACCIDENTS — INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOLS.  J«) 

In  such  capacity,  such  board  shall  also  employ  such  clerks  and 
assistants  as  may  be  necessary  to  properly  conduct  its  affairs.  The 
state  treasurer  shall  be  ex  officio  treasurer  of  the  board,  but  the 
board  *  *  *  shall  appoint  a  suitable  person  to  receive  fees  or 
other  moneys  that  may  be  due  such  board,  *  *  *  to  account  there- 
for, and  to  pay  *  *  *  such  moneys,  within  one  week  of  their 
receipt,  to  the  state  treasurer.  Such  payments  shall  be  credited  to 
Stout  institute. 

4.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  first  twenty  thousand 
dollars   payable  from   any  moneys  in  the   general  fund  not  other- 
wise  appropriated   for   Stout   institute   for   current   expenses.     Any 
unexpended  balance  shall  be  available  in  subsequent  years. 

5.  Any  unexpended  balance  of  the  sum  set  aside  for  such  insti- 
tute pursuant  to  chapter   616,  laws  of  1911,  and  on  hand  July  1, 
1013,  shall  be  available  thereafter  for  such  purposes. 

6.  There    is    appropriated    on    July    1,    1913,    sixty-five    thousand 
dollars   payable   from  any  moneys  in   the   general  fund   not  other- 
wise appropriated,  for  Stout  institute  for  the  purposes  set  out  in 
subdivisions  (b)   and   (c)   of  subsection  9  of  this  section. 

7.  There  is  appropriated  on  March  1,  1914,  seventy-five  thousand 
dollars  payable  from   any  moneys  in   the   general   fund  not  other- 
wise appropriated,   for  Stout  institute  for  the  purposes  set  out  in 
subdivision   (a)   of  subsection  9  of  this  section. 

8.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1,   1914,  one  hundred  twenty- 
five    thousand    dollars,    payable    from    any    moneys    in    the    general 
fund  not   otherwise   appropriated,   for   Stout  institute  for  the  pur- 
poses set  out  in  subdivision  (a)  of  subsection  9  of  this  section. 

9.  The  sums  appropriated  for  Stout  institute  in  subsections  6,  7, 
and  8  of  this  section  are  for  the  following  purposes: 

(a)  $200,000   for  the  erection  of  a  building  for  the  household 
arts    department   including   an   auditorium    and   offices    for   the   ad- 
ministrative work  in  the  Stout  institute  in  Menomonie,  Wisconsin. 

(b)  $50,000    for    an    addition    to    the    present    manual    training 
building  in  use  by  the  institute,  to  provide  for  an  extension  of  the 
present    heating    plant   by    an    enlargement    of   the    existing    boiler 
room  and  coal  storage  room  and  by  the  purchase  and  installation 
of  the  necessary  additional  boilers  and  also  to  provide  in  said  ad- 
dition, rooms  necessary  to  accommodate  classes  in  bricklaying  and 
cement  work,  plumbing,  carpentry,  moulding  and  mill  work. 

(c)  $15,000  for  the  purchase  of  land  for  a  campus  and  to  pro- 
vide for  the  future  development  of  the  Stout  institute. 

10.  All  moneys  collected  or  received  by  each  and   every  person 


20  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

for,  or  in  behalf  of  Stout  institute,  are  appropriated  for  such  in- 
stitute.    (1013  c.  2?,!)) 

The  purpose  of  this  act  is  to  provide  permanently  for  the 
Stout  Institute,  located  at  Menomonie.  This  school  is  designed 
for  the  purpose  of  training  teachers  to  take  charge  of  the  dif- 
ferent phases  of  industrial  education. 

Truant  officers;  appointment  and  duties.  Section  439b.  1. 
In  all  cities  of  the  first  class  the  board  of  education  or  any  board 
having  similar  powers,  shall  appoint  ten  or  more  truant  officers; 
*  *  *  in  all  *  *  *  cities  *  *  *  of  the  second  and  third 
classes,  such  board  shall  appoint  one  or  more  truant  officers,  and  in 
all  cities  of  the  fourth  class  the  chief  of  police  and  the  police  officers 
may  be  truancy  officers,  whose  *  *  *  duties  it  shall  be  to  see  that 
the  provisions  of  this  act  are  -enforced.  *  *  * 

2.  When  of  his  personal  knowledge,  or  by  report  or  complaint 
from  any  resident  of  the  city,  or  by  report  or  complaint  as  pro- 
vided herein,  a  truant  officer  believes  that  any  child  is  unlawfully 
and  habitually  absent  from  school  and  not  otherwise  receiving  in- 
struction as  provided  in  section  439a  as  amended,  he  shall  immedi- 
ately investigate  and  render  all  service  in  his  power,  to  compel 
such  child  to  attend  some  public,  parochial  or  private  school  which 
the  person  having  control  of  the  child  shall  designate,  or  if  over 
fourteen  and  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  to  attend  school  or  be- 
come regularly  employed  at  home  or  elsewhere,  and  upon  failure 
he  shall  serve  a  written  notice  as  required  in  section  4  of  this  act 
and  proceed  as  hereinafter  provided  against  the  person  having 
charge  of  such  child.  And  in  all  *  *  *  towns  and  villages 
the  sheriff  of  the  county,  his  undersheriff,  and  deputies  shall  be 
the  truant  officers,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  truant  officers 
named  in  this  section  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  act  as  pro- 
vided herein. 

Section  439cd.  1.  Truant  officers  in  cities  *  *  *  of  the  first, 
second  and  third  classes  shall  receive  such  compensation  as  shall  be 
fixed  by  the  boards  of  education  of  such  cities  or  boards  having  sim- 
ilar powers. 

2.  The  chief  of  police  and  the  police  officers  >of  cities  of  tJie  fourth 
class  may  perform-  the  duties  of  truant  officers  in  addition  to  the 
other  duties  devolving  upon  them,  and  shall  receive  no>  extra  or  addi- 
tional compensation  therefor. 

3.  When  the  sheriff,  undersheriff,  and  his  deputies  are  acting  as 
truant  officers  as  provided  herein,  they  shall  be  paid  the  same  fees 
as  provided  for  such  officers  in  criminal  actions  brought  under  the 
laws  of  this  state,  and  in  counties  where  the  sheriff  and  deputies 


TRUANT  OFFICERS — SCHOOL  LAWS.  21 

are  paid  an  annual  salary  no  extra  compensation  shall  be  allowed. 
(J913  c.  230) 

This  is  a  truancy  law  and  specifies  duties  of  various  officers. 

It  is  of  especial  interest  to  chiefs  of  police  and  police  officers  of 

cities  of  the  fourth  class. 

Loans  to  school  districts.  Section  258a.  The  loans  provided  for 
by  subdivision  5  of  the  preceding  section  may  .be  made  for  any 
term  not  exceeding  twenty  years,  may  be  made  payable  in  instal- 
ments, and  be  in  such  amounts  as  shall  not,  in  connection  with  all 
other  indebtedness  of  the  town,  village,  city  or  county  applying 
therefor,  exceed  five  per  centum  of  the  average  assessed  valuation 
01  the  taxable  property  therein  for  the  three  years  next  preceding 
the  application  for  such  loan;  provided,  that  such  loan  may  be 
made  to  pay  off  existing  indebtedness  and  may  be  paid  over  in  in- 
stalments as  fast  as  such  indebtedness  or  the  evidence  thereof  is 
canceled.  The  rate  of  interest  on  such  loans  shall  not  be  less  than 
*  *  *  four  *  *  *  per  centum  per  annum. 

Section  261.  Every  loan  to  a  school  district  may  be  made  for 
such  time,  not  exceeding  fifteen  years,  and  of  such  amount  as  to- 
gether with  all  other  indebtedness  of  such  district,  shall  not  ex- 
ceed five  per  centum  of  the  last  preceding  assessed  valuation  of  the 
property  in  such  district,  not  less  than  two-thirds  of  which  valu- 
ation shall  be  on  real  estate,  and  not  exceeding  in  any  case  twenty- 
five  thousand  dollars,  as  may  be  agreed  upon;  the  principal  shall 
be  payable  in  equal  annual  instalments  with  interest  at  a  uniform 
rate  of  *  *  *  four  *  *  *  per  centum  per  annum,  pay- 
able annually.  No  such  loan  shall  be  made  until  proof  be  filed  in 
the  office  of  said  commissioners  of  the  complete  performance  on 
the  part  of  such  district  of  each  and  every  act  hereinafter  required 
to  precede  the  same.  (1913  c.  236) 

The  above  act  changes  the  rate  of  interest  on  loans  made  by 
school  districts  from  the  trust  funds  from  3  %  to  4  per  cent  per 
annum.  This  chapter  is  of  especial  interest  to  school  officers 
and  electors  of  school  districts  contemplating  borrowing  money 
from  the  state  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  school  building.  The 
provisions  of  this  and  other  statutes  relating  to  borrowing  money 
should  be  carefully  studied  by  school  officers,  and  perhaps  others, 
before  meetings  are  held  for  the  purpose  of  making  loans  from 
the  state  trust  funds.  The  comments  in  the  school  code  of  1911 
should  be  carefully  studied  also  and  suitable  blanks  with  in- 
structions for  making  the  application  should  be  secured  from 
the  office  of  the  chief  clerk  of  the  land  commissioners,  Madison, 
Wisconsin.  There  is  constant  irritation  and  annoyance  in  dis- 
tricts contemplating  the  erection  of  school  buildings  'arising 
from  the  fact  that  care  has  not  been  taken,  especially  where  spe- 
cial meetings  are  called,  in  the  matter  of  calling  the  meeting, 
voting  upon  the  resolutions,  keeping  proper  minutes,  in  fact 


22  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

doing  the  business  in  an  orderly  manner.  It  may  be  interesting 
to  know  that  probably  one-half  of  the  applications  filed  with 
the  Land  Commissioners  are  imperfect,  and  in  most  cases  in- 
valid, because  of  irregularities  in  the  proceedings  which  could 
have  been  easily  avoided  with  a  little  care.  The  necessity  for 
careful  study  of  the  statutes  relating  to  borrowing  money  and 
also  of  the  method  of  procedure,  cannot  be  too  carefully  em- 
phasized. 

Teachers  may  attend  county  school  board  conventions.  Section 
459.  Twenty  days  of  teaching  shall  constitute  a  school  month  un- 
less it  be  otherwise  specified  in  the  contract,  and  all  legal  holidays, 
except  the  day  of  any  primary  election  or  any  general  election  oc- 
curring on  school  days  shall  be  counted  although  no  school  be 
taught;  but  school  taught  on  legal  holidays  shall  not  be  counted 
for  two  school  days,  and  no  Saturday  shall  be  counted.  The  board 
may  give  to  any  teacher  employed,  without  deduction  from  his 
wages,  the  .whole  or  any  part  of  any  time  spent  by  him  in  attend- 
ing the  sessions  of  any  institute  held  in  the  county  embracing  any 
part  of  the  district,  in  attending  a  school  board  convention,  or  in 
attending  the  meeting  of  any  teachers'  association,  upon  such 
teacher  furnishing  to  the  clerk,  to  be  filed  by  him,  a  certificate  of 
regular  attendance  on  such  institute,  school  board  convention,  or 
teachers'  association,  signed  by  the  person  conducting  the  institute 
or  convention  or  by  the  secretary  of  the  association.  (1913  c.  '>')-') ) 

This  statute  provides  that  teachers  may  attend  school  board 
conventions  and  the  regular  school  days  so  employed  shall  be 
counted  as  days  taught.  A  meeting  of  the  school  board  in  order 
to  give  the  teacher  the  privilege,  is  necessary  before  the  teacher 
can  lawfully  attend  and  be  entitled  to  wages  for  the  time  so 
spent. 

The  teacher  must  not  mark  the  "attendance"  of  pupils  in  the 
school  register  where  days  are  taken  for  the  above  purpose  or 
where  holidays  occur. 

Sweeping  school  rooms,  etc.  Section  1418w.  1.  It  shall  be  un- 
lawful for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  to  sweep,  or  permit  the 
sweeping,  except  when  vacuum  cleaners  or  properly  filled  reservoir 
dustless  brushes  are  used,  of  floors  in  railroad  stations,  in  passen- 
ger cars,  in  any  state  or  public  building,  in  the  public,  parochial 
or  private  schools  or  in  other  educational  institutions,  in  hotels, 
department  stores,  where  the  public  are  invited,  unless  the  floor 
is  first  sprinkled  with  water,  moist  sawdust,  or  other  substance  so 
as  to  prevent  the  raising  of  dust. 

2.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  owning,  or  having  the  man- 
agement or  control  of  such  railroad  stations,  state  or  public  build- 
ings, public,  parochial  or  private  schools,  hotels,  department  stores, 
Avliere  the  public  are  invited,  who  violates  any  of  the  provision?- 


TEACHERS — SWEEPING — EXAMINATIONS.  23 

Of  this  section,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall 
be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than 
fifty  dollars.  (1913  c.  274) 

This  is  a  health  measure  and  is  of  more  or  less  interest  lo  all. 

Dissolution  of  union  high  school  districts  in  certain  cases.  Sec- 
tion 495 — 20.  1.  The  electors  of  the  territory  comprising  a  union 
free  high  school  district  may,  at  any  annual  meeting  or  election, 
vote  upon  the  question  of  surrendering  the  certificate  of  organiza- 
tion of  the  union  free  high  school  district  and  the  dissolving  of 
the  union  free  high  school  district;  provided,  that  one-fifth  of  the 
electors  resident  therein  shall  sign  a  petition  praying  for  the  sub- 
mission of  such  question  at  such  annual  meeting  or  election  and 
file  the  same  with  the  clerk  of  such  union  free  high  school  district 
at  least  twenty  days  before  such  annual  meeting  or  election;  and 
provided  further,  that  no  such  election  shall  be  held  within  four 
years  after  the  date  when  such  district  was  organized. 

2.  Upon   the   filing   of   such   petition    with   said   clerk,    the   clerk 
shall  at  once  cause  ten  days'  notice  of  such  purpose  to  be  given  by 
posting  at  least  six  copies  thereof  in  at  least  six  different  public  places 
in  such   tract  or  territory   composing  such   union  free  high  school 
district  or  by  publishing  any  such  notice   in  any   newspaper   pub- 
lished in  said  territory  ten  days  prior  to  the  time  set  for  holding 
such  meeting.     The  vote  shall  be  taken  and  conducted  in  the  man- 
ner prescribed   by  section  495 — 9   of  the  statutes  for  the  election 
of  officers.     Those  ballots  in  favor  of  the  surrendering  of  the  cer- 
tificate and  dissolution  of  the  union  free  high  school  district  shall 
be  written  or  printed  "for  surrender,"  those  opposed  "against  sur- 
render," and  such  union  free  high  school  district  shall  not  .be  dis- 
solved unless  a  majority  of  the  electors  residing  in  each  component 
part  comprising  such  territory  shall  be  in  favor  thereof,  and  such 
dissolution  shall  be  effective  at  the  end  of  the  school  year  in  which 
such   meeting  or  election  is  held. 

3.  After    the    dissolution    of    any    such    district,    the    property    of 
such    dissolved    district    shall    be    disposed    of    and    the    assets    and 
debts   of  such   dissolved   district   shall   be   apportioned   and   distrib- 
uted subject  to  and  in  the  manner  provided  by  section  424  of  the 
statutes,   so  far  as  the  provisions  thereof  can   be  made  applicable 
therefor.      (1913  c.  292) 

County  teachers'  examinations.  (Section  461)  (8)  To  hold 
semiannual  public  examinations  for  county  teachers'  certificates  at 
two  or  more  convenient  places  within  the  county,  and  to  give  due 
notice  of  the  time  and  places  at  which  such  examinations  will  be 


24  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

held  by  a  publication  in  newspapers  having  a  circulation  within 
the  county,  or  by  printed  notice  to  teachers  and  clerks  of  school 
boards  within  the  county.  Whenever,  for  any  cause  satisfactory 
to  the  county  superintendent,  it  is  necessary  to  give  a  private  ex- 
amination to  any  person  desiring  a  certificate,  if  the  person  be 
found  qualified,  according  to  law,  he  may  issue  a  certificate  of  the 
proper  grade,  which  shall  remain  in  force  until  the  next  regular 
public  examination  in  such  inspection  district.  (1913  c.  301) 

This  simply  provides  that  superintendents  shall  hold  teach- 
ers' examinations  in  the  spring  and  also  in  the  summer  or  tail. 
Superintendents  are  to  exercise  their  discretion  as  to  places 
where  the  examinations  shall  be  held. 

Certain  restrictions  removed.  (Section  430)  (5)  To  vote  such 
tax  as  the  meeting  shall  deem  sufficient  to  purchase  or  lease  a  suit- 
able site  for  a  schoolhouse,  to  build,  hire  or  purchase  a  schoolhouse 
and  to  keep  in  repair  and  furnish  th©  same  with  the -necessary  fuel 
and  appendages.  *  *  * 

(6)  To  vote  such  tax  as  the  meeting  shall  deem  proper  for  the 
payment  of  teachers'  wages  in  the  district.  *  *  *  (1913  c.  302) 

This  simply  removes  certain  restrictions  that  in  some  cases 
prevented  the  electors  from  voting  the  necessary  amount  I'or 
school  purposes  because  of  insufficient  population. 

Division    of    union    free    high    school    districts    in    certain    cases. 

(Section  495 — 14)  (9)  In  cases  where  a  union  f  reev  high  school 
district  consists  of  two  or  more  entire  congressional  townships,  and 
the  electors  of  such  union  free  high  school  district  desire  to  estab- 
lish another  union  free  high  school  district,  the  boundaries  of  said 
union  free  high  school  district  may  be  changed  and  another  union 
free  high  school  district  set  off,  provided  a  majority  of  the  electors, 
men  and  women,  of  the  entire  territory  of  said  original  union  fiee 
high  school  district  shall,  at  an  election  called  and  held  in  the 
manner  now  provided  by  the  statutes  for  holding  an  election  for 
the  formation  of  a  union  free  high  school  district,  vote  in  favor 
of  said  division;  the  lines  of  division  to  correspond  with  township 
lines.  (1913  c.  315) 

High  school  tuition  fees.  Section  496k.  Whenever  persons,  not 
residing  in  any  free  high  school  district  and  having  completed  the 
course  of  study  in  the  school  district  in  which  they  reside,  or  one 
equivalent  thereto,  as  herein  provided,  enter  any  free  high  school, 
the  free  high  school  board  of  that  district  shall  be  entitled  and  is 
hereby  authorized  to  charge  a  tuition  fee  for  such  pupils  not  to 
exceed  *  *  *  one  dollar  per  week.  On  or  before  the  first  day 
of  July  in  each  year,  the  secretary  of  the  free  high  school  board 


TUITION— WINTER   TERMS.  25 

shall  make  a  sworn  statement  to  the  clerk  of  the  city,  town  or 
village  from  which  any  person  may  have  been  admitted  to  said  free 
high  school.  Said  statement  shall  set  forth  the  residence,  name, 
age,  and  date  of  entrance  to  such  school,  tlu-  number  of  months' 
attendance  during  the  preceding  school  year  of  each  person  so  ad- 
mitted from  such  city,  town  or  village;  this  statement  shall  show 
the  amount  of  tuition  which,  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  the 
district  is  entitled  to  receive  for  each  person  reported  as  having 
been  a  member  of  the  school  from  such  city,  town,  or  village,  and 
the  aggregate  sum  for  tuition  for  all  persons  so  admitted  from 
each  city,  town  or  village,  which  statement  shall  be  filed  as  a  claim 
against  the  town,  city  or  village  where  such  person  resides,  and 
allowed  as  other  claims  are  allowed.  (1913  c.  325) 

This  chapter  increases  the  non-resident  fee  for  attendance  upon 
free  high  schools  from  fifty  cents  a  week  to  one  dollar  a  week; 
said  tuition  to  be  paid  by  the  town  or  village  in  which  said  pu- 
pil resides.  In  levying  a  tax  to  pay  this  tuition,  attention  must 
be  given  to  the  boundaries  of  the  free  high  school  district.  Any 
lands  or  property  lying  within  a  free  high  school  district  cannot 
lawfully  be  taxed  for  the  purpose  of  providing  for  the  tuition  of 
non-resident  pupils. 

Winter  terms  for  high  schools.  Section  494a.  1.  The  high 
school  boards  of  not  exceeding  ten  high  schools  not  under  the  su- 
pervision of  a  city  superintendent  may  each,  under  such  condi- 
tions and  regulations  as  the  state  superintendent  of  schools  may 
prescribe,  establish  a  winter  term  commencing  between  the  30th  of 
October  and  the  15th  day  of  November,  and  continuing  each  year 
for  a  number  of  weeks  equal  to  one-half  the  number  of  weeks 
school  is  maintained  for  the  regular  high  school  course  during 
that  school  year. 

2.  The  qualifications  for  admission  to  the  course  of  study  of  said 
winter  term  shall  be  those  prescribed  for  admission  to  the  regular 
high    school    courses;    provided,    that    persons    not    possessing    the 
qualifications  required  for  admission  to  the  regular  courses  may  be 
admitted  to  said  winter  term  course  upon  the  presentation  to  the 
high   school   principal   of  evidence  through    examination  or  other- 
wise satisfactory  to  him  of  ability  to  carry  on  the  work  of  said 
course,  and  persons  between  the  ages  of  sixteen  and  twenty  years 
so  admitted  shall  be  entitled  to  the  privileges  prescribed  in  sections 
49 6 j  to  4 9 60,  inclusive,  of  the  statutes,  and  they  shall  also  be  en- 
titled to  enter  the  regular  high  school  classes  upon  evidence  satis- 
factory to  the  high  school  board  and  principal  of  their  ability  to 
do  the  work  of  such  classes. 

3.  The  course  of  study  for   such  winter  term  shall  receive  the 
approval   of   the   state   superintendent;    the   additional    teacher   or 


26  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

teachers  necessary  to  administer  the  said  winter  term  course  of 
study  in  addition  to  the  regular  courses  of  the  school,  shall  be  se- 
lected with  his  advice  and  consent,  and  the  course  of  study  shall 
be  administered  in  a  manner  to  meet  his  approval.  Said  teacher  or 
teachers  shall  have  the  qualifications  prescribed  for  teachers  in  free 
high  schools.  The  salary  of  said  teacher  or  teachers  shall  not  be 
counted  in  apportioning  the  general  special  aid  or  any  special  aid 
for  agriculture,  manual  training  or  domestic  science  for  a  school 
administering  said  winter  term  course  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act. 

4.  On  the  first  day  of  July  of  each  year  the  clerk  of  each  such 
high  school  board  shall  report  to  the  state  superintenent,  in  such 
form  as  may  be  required,  setting  forth  the  facts  relating  to  the  cost 
of  maintaining  the  department  established  under  this  act;  the 
character  of  the  work  done;  the  number  and  names  of  teachers 
employed,  and  the  length  of  time  it  was  maintained  during  the 
preceding  year;  and  upon  the  receipt  of  such  report,  if  it  shall 
appear  that  the  department  has  been  maintained  in  a  satisfactory 
manner,  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  section,  the  said  super- 
intendent shall  make  a  certificate  to  that  effect  and  file  it  with  the 
secretary  of  state.  Upon  receiving  such  certificate  the  secretary 
of  state  shall  draw  his  warrant  upon  the  treasury  for  two-thirds 
the  amount  actually  expended  for  the  salary  or  salaries  of  said  ad- 
ditional teacher  or  teachers  during  the  year  for  which  the  state 
aid  is  received,  not,  however,  to  exceed  $500  for  any  one  school,  said 
aid  to  be  payable  from  the  appropriation  for  winter  term  in  high 
schools  to  the  treasurer  of  the  high  school  district  maintaining 
the  school. 

Section  172 — 116.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  1, 
not  to  exceed  five  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in 
the  general  fund,  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  maintaining 
winter  terms  in  high  schools  as  provided  in  section  494a.  (1913  c.  3^6} 

This  chapter  provides  for  the  establishment  of  a  new  and 
peculiar  department  in  connection  with  a  free  high  school. 
Its  purpose  is  to  offer  opportunities  for  persons  who,  owing  to 
circumstances,  cannot  take  the  regular  high  school  work  to  im- 
prove themselves  along  educational  lines.  It  will  be  noted  that 
the  teacher  having  charge  of  this  school  must  possess  high  and 
satisfactory  qualifications.  Graduates  of  country  schools  who  can 
only  give  a  part  of  the  winter  to  school  work  will  find  this  a 
popular,  helpful  and  valuable  department. 

Schools  for  children  who  are  deaf  or  who  have  defective  speech. 

(Section  578)  1.  Upon  application  by  the  board  of  education  of 
any  village  or  city,  made  to  the  state  superintendent,  he  may  grant 
permission  to  such  city  or  village  to  establish  and  maintain  within 


DEFECTIVE   SPEECH— STENOGRAPHY,    ETC.  27 

its  corporate  limits  one  or  more  schools  for  the  instruction  of  deaf 
persons  or  persons  with  defective  speech  or  unable  to  talk,  who 
are  residents  of  the  state. 

(Section  578.  2)  (2)  There  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  state 
treasury  annually  in  the  month  of  July,  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
school  district  board  or  of  the  board  of  education  in  the  city  or 
village  maintaining  such  school  or  schools  under  the  charge  of 
one  or  more  teachers,  whose  qualifications  shall  be  approved  by  the 
state  superintendent,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  fifty  dollars  for  each 
deaf  or  defective  speech  pupil  instructed  in  such  school  or  schools 
at  least  nine  months  during  the  year  next  preceding  the  first  day 
of  July,  and  a  share  of  such  sum  proportionate  to  the  term  of  in- 
struction of  any  such  pupil  who  shall  be  so  instructed  less  than 
nine  months  during  such  year,  and  the  additional  sum  of  one 
hundred  dollars  for  'each  deaf  or  defective  speech  pupil  not  resid- 
ing in  the  school  district  where  the  school  for  the  deaf  or  those 
with  defective  speech  is  located,  but  residing  in  this  state,  who  has 
been  so  instructed,  and  who  finds  it  necessary  while  attending  the 
school  for  the  deaf  or  those  ivith  defective  speech  to  pay  for  board 
in  the  district  maintaining  such  school  or  schools  or  to  pay  for 
transportation  to  and  from  such  school,  or  both,  when  the  parents 
of  such  deaf  or  defective  speech  child  are  unable  to  meet  this  ex- 
pense, and  a  share  of  such  one  hundred  fifty  dollars  or  two  hundred 
fifty  dollars  as  the  case  may  be  proportionate  to  the  term  of  in- 
struction of  any  such  pupil  who  shall  be  so  instructed  less  than 
nine  months  during  such  year;  provided,  however,  that  no  deduc- 
tion shall  be  made  in  said  appropriation  in  the  case  of  any  child  who 
has  been  absent  because  of  illness  not  to  exceed  a  m»ynth  for  any  one 
period  of  illness.  (1013  c.  3-50) 

Stenography,  typewriting  niul  bookkeeping  in  high  schools.      Sec 

tion  49 6c — 3.  1.  Any  high  school  which  shall  establish  and  main- 
tain a  course  or  courses  in  stenography,  typewriting  and  book- 
keeping shall  be  entitled  to  and  shall  receive  special  state  aid  there- 
for in  like  manner  and  under  like  conditions  as  is  provided  in  sec- 
tions 496b  and  496c  of  the  statutes  for  high  schools  maintaining 
courses  in  manual  training,  domestic  science  or  agriculture;  pro- 
vided, that  the  maximum  which  any  high  school  may  receive  under 
this  section  shall  be  three  hundred  fifty  dollars. 

2.  The  board  of  education  of  any  such  high  school  may  restrict 
admission  to  said  courses  }n  stenography  or  bookkeeping  to  high 
school  students,  and  may  withhold  graduation  or  certification  of 
students  from  such  courses  until  such  students  have  completed  the 
regular  high  school  course. 


28  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

3.  State  aid  for  high  schools  for  stenography,  typewriting  and 
bookkeeping  shall  be  paid  from  the  appropriation  made  for  high 
schools  maintaining  courses  in  manual  training,  domestic  science 
or  agriculture.  (1913  c.  373) 

This  places  a  department  in  which  stenography,  typewriting 
and  bookkeeping  are  taught  in  the  same  class  with  manual  train- 
ing, domestic  science  and  agriculture  departments  maintained  in 
connection  with  a  high  school.  The  amount  of  state  aid  offered 
for  the  establishment  of  a  stenography,  typewriting  and  book- 
keeping department,  is  $350,  while  in  the  case  of  manual  train- 
ing, domestic  science  and  agriculture  it  is  but  $250  when  these 
branches  are  maintained  in  connection  with  the  high  school  only. 
The  law  does  not  require  or  provide  that  stenography,  etc.,  may 
be  taught  in  the  grades  and  any  special  state  aid  received  there- 
for. 

Consolidation  of  districts;  special  aid.  Section  496 — 1.  1. 
Whenever  fifteen  per  cent  of  the  electors  of  any  rural  school  dis- 
trict, and  one  or  more  contiguous  school  districts  or  subdistricts 
within  or  outside  of  an  incorporated  village  shall  petition  therefor 
the  respective  school  boards  shall  meet  at  a  place  designated  by  the 
school  board  of  the  petitioning  district  having  the  largest  popula- 
tion to  fix  a  time  for  an  election  to  determine  whether  the  district 
schools  within  the  districts  shall  be  consolidated.  They  shall  fix 
the  date  of  the  election  at  not  less  than  four  nor  more  than  eight 
weeks  from  the  time  of  their  meeting  and  notify  the  district  clerks 
of  the  date.  The  district  clerks  of  the  respective  districts  and  sub- 
districts  shall  post  the  notices  of  election  as  notices  of  school  dis- 
trict meetings  are  posted.  The  elections  shall  be  held  by  the  school 
officers  of  the  respective  districts  by  written  ballots.  They  shall 
report  the  result  of  the  election  in  their  respective  districts  to  the 
cierk  of  the  district  in  which  the  meeting  to  fix  the  time  of  the 
election  is  held,  within  three  days  after  the  election.  The  resp~-c- 
tive  school  boards  one  week  after  the  election  shall  meet  in  the 
same  manner  and  place  as  for  calling  the  election  and  shall  canvass 
the  returns. 

2.  If  a  majority  of  those  of  each  district  voting  at  the  election 
vote  in  favor  of  consolidating  the  district  schools  in  their  respec- 
tive school  districts,  the  territory  included  constitutes  a  consolidated 
rural  school  district. 

3.  The    school    boards    at    the    time    of    canvassing    the    returns 
shall  appoint  a  time  and  place  for  the  first  district  meeting  and 
^shall  post  a  written  notice  thereof  in  at  least  three  public  places 
in  each  of  the  several  districts  or  subdistricts  which  compose  the 
consolidated  school  district. 

Section  496 — 2.  A  consolidated  rural  school  district  shall  be 
deemed  organized  when  any  two  of  the  officers  elected  at  its  first 


CONSOLIDATION— SPECIAL  AID.  29 

legal  meeting  file  with  the  clerk  of  the  meeting  for  canvassing  re- 
turns, their  written  acceptances  of  the  office  to  which  they  have 
been  respectively  elected,  or  when  it  has  exercised  the  franchises 
and  privileges  of  the  district  for  the  term  of  one  year.  A  consoli- 
dated rural  school  district  lawfully  organized  is  a  body  corporate 
and  possesses  the  usual  powers  of  a  public  corporation,  by  the 

name  and  style  of  "Consolidated  Rural  School  District  No 

of "  (the  town  or  village,  as  the  case  may  be,  in 

which  the  school  building  is  located  or  proposed  to  be  located). 
Such  numbers  shall  be  designated  by  the  board  or  boards  in  the 
order  of  the  formation  of  consolidated  rural  school  districts.  The 
board  shall  make  its  contracts  in  its  corporate  name. 

Section  496 — 3.  When  a  consolidated  rural  school  district  shall 
be  lawfully  organized,  the  school  districts  or  subdistricts  out  of 
which  it  shall  have  been  formed  shall  cease  to  exist  as  school  dis- 
tricts or  bodies  corporate,  and  the  title  to  all  property  and  assets 
of  every  nature  of  the  several  school  districts  and  subdistricts  out 
of  which  it  was  organized,  shall  thereupon  become  vested  in  the 
consolidated  rural  school  district,  and  all  valid  subsisting  claims 
and  obligations  against  and  contracts  of  the  said  several  school  dis- 
tricts and  subdistricts  shall  continue  to  be  valid  claims  and  obli- 
gations against  them  severally.  All  claims  and  obligations  arising 
after  the  formation  of  a  consolidated  school  district  shall  be  against 
the  consolidated  school  district.  The  consolidated  rural  school  dis- 
trict shall  maintain  and  conduct  the  schools  theretofore  maintained 
and  conducted  by  the  several  districts  and  subdistricts,  until  such 
time  as  the  consolidated  rural  school  district  shall  have  purchased 
or  erected  and  equipped  a  building  in  which  school  can  be  conducted. 

Section  496 — 4.  The  consolidated  rural  school  district  established 
nnder  sections  496 — 1  to  496 — 12,  inclusive,  shall  have  authority 
to  borrow  money  under  the  conditions  specified  in  sections  474,  475 
and  476  of  the  statutes. 

Section  496 — 5.  Consolidated  rural  school  districts  shall  be  en- 
titled to  and  shall  share  in  the  distribution  of  the  common  school 
fund  income  and  other  school  funds,  in  the  same  manner  as  school 
districts  maintaining  common  and  graded  schools.  In  case  a  high 
school  is  maintained,  the  consolidated  rural  school  shall  be  entitled 
to  and  share  as  in  the  case  of  union  free  high  schools. 

Section  496 — 6.  Special  state  aid  partially  to  defray  the  cost  of 
erecting  and  equipping  a  school  building  shall  be  granted  to  conso- 
lidated rural  school  districts  as  follows: 

(1)  To  a  consolidated  rural  school  district  maintaining  a  school 
consisting  of  one  department  formed  by  the  uniting  of  two  or  more 


30  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

school  districts  or  subdistricts,  one-half  the  cost,  not  to  exceed  five 
hundred  dollars  to  any  one  school; 

(2)  To  a  consolidated  rural  school  district  maintaining  a  school 
consisting  of  a  graded  school  of  two   departments,   formed  by  the 
uniting  of  the  schools  of  two  or  more  school   districts  or  subdis- 
tricts, one-half  the  cost,  not  to  exceed  fifteen  hundred  dollars  to 
any  one  school; 

(3)  To  a  consolidated  rural  school  district  maintaining  a  school 
consisting  of  a  graded  school  of  three  departments,  formed  by  the 
uniting  of  the  schools  of  two  or  more  school  districts  or  subdistricts, 
one-half  of  the  cost,  not  to  exceed  two  thousand  dollars  to  any  one 
school; 

(4)  To  a  consolidated  rural  school  district  maintaining  a  school 
consisting  of  a  graded  school  of  four  or  more  departments,  formed 
by  the  uniting  of  the  schools  of  three  or  more  school  districts  or  sub- 
districts,  one-half  of  the  cost,  not  to  exceed  three  thousand  dollars 
to  any  one  school; 

(5)  To  a  consolidated  school  district  maintaining  a  school  con- 
sisting of  a  graded  school  and  a  high  school,  formed  by  the  uniting 
of  all  the  districts  and  subdistricts  of  a  township,  one-half  of  the 
cost,  not  to  exceed  five  thousand  dollars  to  any  one  school. 

Section  496 — 7.  All  plans  and  expense  accounts  for  additions  to 
school  buildings,  or  for  new  buildings  under  sections  496 — 1  to 
496 — 12,  inclusive,  shall  be  submitted  to  the  state  superintendent. 
No  state  aid  shall  be  granted  unless  the  state  superintendent  has 
approved  the  plans  when  thus  submitted. 

Section  496 — 8.  The  clerk  of  the  school  board  of  consolidated 
rural  school  districts  shall,  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  July 
of  each  year,  make  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction 
a  report  stating  the  number  of  departments  in  the  school,  the  total 
expense  for  the  previous  year,  and  such  other  information  as  the 
state  superintendent  of  public  instruction  requires. 

Section  496 — 9.  The  officers  of  any  consolidated  rural  school 
district  may  enter  into  contracts  for  the  transportation  of  pupils  to 
the  consolidated  rural  schools  maintained  under  their  authority. 

Section  496 — 10.  The  consolidated  rural  school  district  shall  re- 
ceive special  state  aid  for  transportation  upon  complying  with  the 
following  conditions: 

(1)  Transportation    shall    be    provided    for    at    least    thirty-two 
weeks,  including  legal  holidays. 

(2)  The  average  daily  attendance  of  the  pupils  transported  from 
any  districts  or  subdistrict  to  any  consolidated  rural  school  or  state 
graded  gchool  or  free  high  school  district,  under  the  provisions  of 


CONSOLIDATION — SPECIAL    AID.  3! 

this  act  shall  be  eighty  per  cent  of  the  entire  number  enrolled  for 
transportation  during  each  term  of  school. 

(3)  Each    driver    contracted    with    shall    be    of    excellent    moral 
character,    trustworthy   and    responsible,    and    shall    furnish    a   safe 
team    with    a   suitable    and    comfortable    conveyance,    well    supplied 
with  protections  against  stormy  and  inclement  weather. 

(4)  The  clerks  of  each   district  or  subdistrict  taking  advantage 
of  sections  496 — 1  to   496 — 12,  inclusive,  shall  make  a  special  rt- 
port  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction  showing  that 
the  above  conditions  have  been  complied  with. 

Section  496 — 11.  Each  district  taking  advantage  of  sections  496 
— 1  to  496 — 12,  inclusive,  shall  receive  the  same  apportionment 
of  the  state  and  other  taxes  as  provided  by  law,  as  would  have  been 
received  had  school  been  maintained  in  the  district. 

Section  496 — 12.  It  shall  also  be  lawful  for  the  electors  to  au- 
thorize the  school  board  to  enter  into  an  agreement  with  the  parent, 
guardian  or  other  person  in  charge  of  any  pupil,  to  compensate 
such  parent,  guardian  or  other  person,  for  transporting  any  pupil 
or  pupils  to  and  from  school,  and  to  enter  into  contracts  for  the 
transportation  to  and  from  school  of  all  persons  of  school  age  who 
attend,  and  to  levy  a  tax,  therefor.  In  all  cases  where  the  distance 
from  the  home  of  the  pupil  or  pupils  who  are  to  be  transported  is 
two  miles  or  less  by  the  nearest  traveled  highway,  the  sum  per 
pupil  so  paid  shall  be  such  as  may  be  authorized  by  the  electors; 
and  in  all  cases  where  the  distance  is  more  than  one  and  less  than 
two  miles,  the  state  shall  pay  five  cents  per  day,  and  where  the 
distance  is  more  than  two  miles,  ten  cents  per  day  for  each  pupil 
transported  regularly  to  and  from  school  in  some  reasonable  and 
comfortable  manner  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  five  months.  The 
school  board  or  the  town  board  of  school  directors  and  the  principal 
teacher  of  the  school  in  which  such  pupil  is  enrolled  shall,  on  or 
before  the  fifteenth  day  of  July  of  each  year,  make  under  .oath  a 
report  giving  the  name  and  showing  the  distance  and  number  of 
days  each  pupil  was  transported,  the  mode  of  transportation,  and 
the  total  amount  claimed  by  the  districts  on  account  of  such  trans- 
portation. 

Section  172 — 112.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  1,  not 
to  exceed  fifty  thousand  dollars  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the 
general  fund,  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  consolidated  rural 
school  districts  established  under  sections  496 — 1  to  496 — 12,  in- 
clusive, for  erecting  and  equipping  school  buildings  and  for  trans- 
portation of  pupils  as  provided  in  said  sections.  (1913  c.  380) 

This  is  a  chapter  that  should  be  carefully  perused  by  all  per- 
sons   interested    in    the    consolidation    of    school    districts.    The 

3— S.  L. 


32  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

method  of  bringing  it  about  is  quite  simple,  depending  upon  pop- 
ular election  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  inducements  offered  in  the 
way  of  meeting  the  expense  of  erecting  and  equipping  a  school 
building  will  prove  a  helpful  factor  in  providing  better  school 
privileges  in  many  cases.  Special  aid  for  building  paid  by  the 
state  is  granted  in  a  lump  sum,  and  but  once.  No  matter  what 
the  cost  of  the  building  may  be,  the  maximum  amount  to  be  paid 
by  the  state  is  named  in  each  case.  For  instance,  if  two  districts 
consolidate  and  maintain  a  state  graded  school  of  two  depart- 
ments and  a  building  is  erected  and  equipped  at  a  cost  of  $4500, 
the  state  will  pay  but  $1500.  The  consolidated  district  must 
bear  the  additional  expense  of  $3,000. 

Department  of  pharmacy — state  university.  Section  3923m — 12. 
The  board  of  regents  of  the  state  university  are  authorized  and 
directed  to  establish,  equip  and  maintain  in  the  department  of 
pharmacy  of  the  state  university  a  pharmaceutical  experiment  sta- 
tion. The  duties  of  the  said  station  shall  be. 

(1)  To  cooperate  with  the  bureau  of  plant  industry  of  the  depart- 
ment of  agriculture  in  the  maintenance  of  the  northern  station  for 
the  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  and  to  disseminate  such  infor- 
mation as  may  lead  to  the  proper  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants 
and  the  production  of  high  grade  vegetable  drugs  in  this  state;  and 

(2)  To    serve    the    public    at    large    by    cooperation    with    both 
pharmacists  and  physicians  in  securing  for  the  sick  the  best  medi- 
cines that  pharmaceutical  science  and  art  can  provide,  and  further 
by  cooperation  with  the  sta-te  board  of  pharmacy,  the  state  board 
of  health,  and  the  dairy  and  food  commission  to  bring  about  these 
results. 

(Section  172 — 53.)  2.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  1, 
twenty-five  hundred  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  gen- 
eral fund,  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the  regents  of  the  uni- 
versity for  the  department  of  pharmacy,  to  carry  out  the  provisions 
of  section  392em — 12.  (1913  c.  404) 

Equalization  of  joint  high  school  and  other  joint  districts.  (Sec- 
tion 471)  1.  The  relative  valuation  of  taxable  property  in  the  sev- 
eral parts  of  any  joint  school  district  or  of  any  joint  high  school  dis- 
trict, shall  not  be  equalized  except  as  herein  provided.  At  any  time 
prior  to  the  *  *  *  fifteenth  day  of  Octooer  of  any  year  any  three 
freeholders  resident  in  that  part  of  any  town,  city  or  village  forming 
a  part  of  any  joint  school  district,  or  -forming  a  part  of  any  high 
school  district  or  if  the  number  of  freeholders  in  such  part  of  any 
town,  city  or  village  "be  less  than  three  then  all  of  such  freeholders, 
may  file  with  the  clerk  of  such  district  a  petition  praying  for  an 
equalization  of  the  relative  valuation  of  taxable  property  in  the  sev- 
eral parts  of  such  district.  The  clerk  shall  thereupon  and  prior  to 


EQUALIZATION— BOOKS— CERTIFICATES    1915.  33 

*  *  *  October  twenty-fifth  of  such  year  notify  in  writing  the  as- 
sessor of  every  town,  city  and  village  in  part  embraced  in  such  district 
to  meet  as  provided  in  subsection  2-  of  this  section. 

2.  The  said  assessors  shall  meet  at  the  district  school  house  with 
their  respective  assessment  rolls  *  *  *  at  the  time  designated  in 
such  .notice  for  the  purpose  of  comparing  and  investigating  the  as- 
sessed valuation  of  the  taxable  property  in  the  several  parts  of  such 
district  separated  by  town,  city  or  village  lines  and  shall  determine 
whether  the  assessed  valuation  of  such  property  on  the  assessment 
rolls  be  just  or  not. 

5.  If  the  assessors  cannot  agree,  they  shall  call  to  their  aid  *  *  * 
the  assessor  of  incomes  of  the  county,  whose  vote  shall  decide  the  con- 
troversy. The  determination  when  made  shall  be  certified  in  writ- 
ing to  the  district  clerk.  (1913  c.  1,06) 

This  chapter  amends  the  law  relating  to  equalizing  the  assessed 
valuation  of  joint  school  districts  for  school  purposes.  It  applies 
to  high  school  districts  as  well  as  ordinary  school  districts.  The 
valuation  when  once  equalized  remains  fixed  until  another  equal- 
ization is  called  for. 

Ownership  of  school  library  books  in  certain  cases.  Section 
486m.  1.  County  and  district  superintendents  and  city  superin- 
tendents of  cities  of  the  fourth  class  shall,  each  and  severally,  acces- 
sion and  care  for  as  county,  superintendent  district,  or  city  school 
district  property,  free  sample  books  which  are  on  the  list  of  books 
prepared  by  the  state  superintendent  as  provided  by  section  486a 
of  the  statutes  and  which  are  received  by  them  after  their  election 
or  appointment  and  during  their  term  of  office  as  superintendents, 
and  they  shall  turn,  said  books  and  an  accession  list  thereof  over 
to  their  successors  in  office  together  with  similar  sample  books 
and  accession  lists  received  from  their  predecessors  in  office,  in  like 
manner  as  the  law  requires  that  other  county,  superintendent 
district,  or  city  school  district  property  shall  be  cared  for  and  turned 
over.  (1913  c.  409) 

This  chapter  in  effect  makes  free  sample  books  the  names  of 
which  are  on  the  school  library  lists  county  property. 

Teachers  certificates;  qualifications  for;  1915.  Section  450d.  1. 
On  and  after  July  1,  1915  no  person  who  shall  not  have  taught  in 
a  public  school  for  at  least  one  year,  shall  be  granted  a  county  or 
city  teacher's  certificate  to  teach  in  the  public  schools  of  the  state 
of  Wisconsin,  unless,  in  addition  to  passing  an  examination  in  all 
of  the  subjects  required  by  law  for  a  county  or  city  teacher's  cer- 
tificate, he  shall  have  completed  the  course  of  study  provided  for 
the  common  schools  of  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  or  one  equivalent 
thereto,  or  the  course  of  study  provided  for  a  graded  system  of 


34  SCHOOL,   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

public  schools  containing  at  least  eight  grades,  or  one  equivalent 
thereto,  and  shall  have  had  at  least  two  additional  years  of  instruc- 
tion in  training,  one  year  of  which,  or  its  equivalent,  shall  have 
been  devoted  to  professional  studies  preparatory  to  the  work  of 
teaching;  provided,  that  graduates  of  four  year  high  schools  not 
maintaining  training  courses  as  provided  in  subsection  3  shall  be 
required  to  have  had,  in  addition  to  the  regular  work  of  the  high 
school,  only  one  additional  year  of  training  in  the  professional 
studies  provided  in  subsection  2. 

2.  The  term  "professional  studies,"  as  used  in  this  section,  shall 
be  interpreted  to  include  a  thorough  review  of  the  branches  required 
by  law  to  be  taught  in  the  common  schools  of  the  state  of  Wiscon- 
sin, the  study  of  the  manual  of  the  course  of  study  provided  for  the 
common  schools,   observation  work,  at  least  ten  weeks  of  practice 
teaching,   school  management,   school   law,   and  such  other  studies 
as  may  be  required  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruc- 
tion to  qualify  a  person  to  teach  in  the  common  schools;  or,  in  lieu 
of  the  foregoing,  a  high  school  training  course  as  provided  in  sec- 
tion 450 — 1  of  the  statutes. 

3.  The  two  years  of  additional   instruction   in  training  required 
in  subsection  1  may  be  obtained  at  a  state  normal  school,  a  county 
training   school   for   teachers,    or   at   a   free   high   school   having   a 
course  of  study  established  for  the  purpose  of  training  teachers,  as 
provided  in  section  450 — 1  of  the  statutes;  provided,  that  no  course 
for  the  training  of  teachers  shall  be  established  in  a  free  high  school 
employing   less   than   three   teachers,    including   the   principal,    and 
unless  the  teacher  employed  to  give  instruction  in  professional  work 
and  to  supervise  observation  work  and  practice  teaching  shall  be 
a  graduate  of  the  advanced  course  from  a  Wisconsin  state  normal 
school,  or  its  equivalent,  and  who  shall,  in  addition,  present  evidence 
satisfactory  to  the  state  superintendent  of  having  had  at  least  two 
years'   successful   experience   as   a   teacher;    and,   provided   further, 
that  no  school  shall   be   continued   on   the  list  of   schools  offering 
courses  for  the  training  of  teachers  unless  the  work  done  therein 
shall  meet  the  approval  of  the  state  superintendent.     (1913  c.  .'ill) 

Every  teacher  or  person  intending  to  become  a  teacher  should 
become   familiar   with   the   provisions   of  this   statute   at  once. 

County  training  school  certificates ;  value  of.  Section  411 — 6. 
1.  Any  person  who  shall  complete  in  a  satisfactory  manner  the 
course  of  study  prescribed  for  any  county  training  school,  and  who 
shall  be  of  good  moral  character,  shall  receive  a  certificate  signed 
by  the  principal  of  the  school  and  by  the  members  of  the  county 
training  school  board.  Said  certificate  shall  certify  that  the  person 


TRAINING  SCHOOL  CERTIFICATES — $40  PER  MONTH.      35 

named  herein  has  satisfactorily  completed  the  course  of  study 
prescribed  for  the  county  training  school,  and  is  of  good  moral 
character;  it  shall  also  contain  a  list  of  the  standings  secured  by 
the  person  on  the  completion  of  each  of  the  studies  pursued  in  the 
school. 

2.  Such     *     *     *     certificates  shall  qualify   the  holder  to   teach  in 
any  common  school  in  the  county  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  county 
superintendent  of  schools  in  lohich  the  county   training  school  is  lo- 
cated for  a  term  of  three  years  from  the  date  of,  its  issuance;  pro- 
vided, that  in  case  the  holder  of  the  certificate  shall  not  have  had  at 
least  one  year  of  successful  experience  he  shall  not  be  qualified  to  act 
as  principal  of  a  second  class  state  graded  school,  nor  shall  he  be  elig- 
ible to  teach  in  any  position  for  which  a  state  certificate  shall  be  re- 
quired by  law;  provided,  that  in  case  the  holder  thereof  has  never 
taught,  or  cannot  furnish  satisfactory  evidence  of  having  successfully 
taught  for  at  least  one  school  year  (seven  months)  in  the  public  schools 
of  this  state,  said  certificate  shall  be  of  full  force  and  effect  for  one 
year  only  from  its  date  of  issue. 

3.  When   satisfactory   evidence   of   successful   teaching  for   at   least 
one  year  (seven  months)   upon  said  training  school  certificate  shall 
be  furnished  to  the  county  or  district  superintendent,  said  superin- 
tendent shall  remove  the  limitation,  whereupon  the  training  school 
certificate  shall  have  full  force  and  effect  for  two  additional  years. 

4.  Be  it  further  provided  that  in  case  the  holder  of  a  county 
teacher's  training  school  certificate  shall  have  completed  a  four 
year  high  school  course,  and  shall  have  taught  successfully  for  at 
least  seven  school  months,  said  certificate  shall,  when  countersigned 
by  the  county  or  district  superintendent,  legally  qualify  the  holder 
to  teach,  for  a  period  of  five  years  from  the  date  when  such  certi- 
ficate was  granted,  and  shall  also  be  a  legal  qualification  to  teach 
in  any  department  of  any  state  graded  school,  the  principalship  of 
a  state  graded  school  of  the  first  class  excepted. 

*  *  *  5.  Any  school  superintendent  or  officer  authorized  to  grant 
certificates  to  teachers  in  Wisconsin  schools  is  hereby  authorized,  in 
his  discretion,  to  accept  standings  obtained  by  the  completion  of 
studies  in  any  county  training  school  in  the  state,  when  duly  certi- 
fied by  the  principal  of  said  school,  in  lieu  of  actual  examination 
by  said  superintendent  or  examiner  at  any  time  within  three  years 
from  the  date  of  the  certificate  of  completion  of  the  course,  by  the 
person  desiring  to  have  such  standings  accepted.  (1913  c.  -!i!8) 

Teachers'  salary;  $40  per  month.  Section  558.  The  town  clerk 
shall  apportion  all  school  money  received  from  the  state  and  also 
all  raised  by  the  town,  among  the  several  districts  and  parts  of 


36  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

districts  within  the  town,  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  persons 
between  the  ages  of  four  and  twenty  years  residing  in  each,  taking 
such  number  from  the  last  annual  report  of  their  respective  dis- 
trict clerks.  No  money  shall  be  apportioned  to  any  district  or 
part  of  a  district,  except  as  herein  provided,  and  as  provided  in 
section  554  of  this  chapter,  by  the  discretion  of  the  state  superin- 
tendent, unless  the  last  annual  report  of  such  district,  verified  by  the 
affidavit  of  the  district  clerk,  shadl  show  that  all  school  money 
received  from  the  state  by  such  district  has  been  used  in  paying  a 
legally  qualified  teacher,  at  a  salary  of  not  less  than  forty  dollars 
per  month,  and  that  a  common  school  has  been  taught  in  such  dis- 
trict by  such  teacher  for  at  least  eight  months  during  the  year  end- 
ing with  the  date  of  such  report.  Provided  that  any  time  which 
such  report  shall  show  was  spent  by  the  teacher  or  teachers  of 
said  district  in  attendance  upon  an  institute  in  the  county,  and  was 
allowed  by  the  district  board  without  deduction  from  such  teacher's 
wages  therefor,  shall  be  included  as  a  part  of  such  eight  months. 
(1913  c.  J/34) 

This  chapter  provides  that  no  school  district  shall  share  in  the 
regular  apportionment  of  school  funds  unless  the  salary  of  the 
teacher  is  at  least  forty  dollars  per  month. 

Annual  meetings;  compensation  of  school  clerks;  making  annual 
school  reports,  etc.,  etc.  Section  425.  The  annual  district  meet- 
ing i>n  all  school  districts  not  containing  in  whole  or  in  part  an  in- 
corporated city  lor  village  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Monday  of  *  *  * 
June,  but  in  all  school  districts  containing  in  whole  >or  in  part  an  in- 
corporated city  or  village  it  shall  ~be  held  o>n  the  first  Monday  of  July 
unless  that  be  a  legal  holiday,  in  which  case  it  shall  be  held  on  the 
next  day,  at  seven  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  unless  another  hour  be 
fixed  by  a  vote  recorded  at  the  last  annual  meeting,  and  any  annual 
meeting  heretofore  or  hereafter  held  shall  be  valid  notwithstanding 
any  provision  to  the  contrary  in  any  special  or  local  law.  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  district  board  to  meet  on  the  Saturday  immedi- 
ately preceding  the  annual  meeting,  carefully  examine  the  accounts 
of  the  treasurer,  and  make  up  a  full  and  itemized  report  of  all  re- 
ceipts and  expenditures  since  the  last  annual  meeting,  of  the  amount 
in  the  hands  of  the  treasurer  or  the  amount  of  the  deficit  for  which 
the  district  is  liable,  of  the  amount  necessary  to  be  raised  by  taxes 
for  the  support  of  the  school  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  of  the  amount 
required  to  pay  the  interest  or  principal  of  any  debt,  due  or  to  be- 
come due  during  such  year;  which  report  shall  be  submitted  in  writ- 
ing at  the  annual  meeting  and  recorded  by  the  clerk  at  length  \vitli 
the  action  thereon  in  the  proceedings  of  the  meeting. 


ANNUAL  MEETING— REPORTS— COMPENSATION.          37 

(Section  430)  (18)  At  the  annual  meeting  only,  to  vote  a  tax  to 
compensate  the  *  *  *  treasurer,  and  director,  which  in  districts 
supporting  graded  and  high  schools  shall  be  such  sums  as  may  be 
voted,  and  in  other  districts  *  *  *  not  more  than  ten  nor  less 
than  flve  dollars  to  each  of  the  above  officers. 

(Section  461)  (6)  To  receive  *  *  *  the  reports  of  the  district 
clerks  required  to  be  made  by  law  and  to  transmit  abstracts  of  the 
same  to  the  state  superintendent;  *  *  *  and  to  report  on  or  be- 
fore the  fifteenth  day  of  September  tp  each  town,  village  or  city  cleric 
in  the  territory  under  his  jurisdiction,  the  number  of  persons  of 
school  age  reported  to  him  by  the  district  clerks  as  residing  in  the 
>several  districts  or  parts  \of  districts  of  the  several  tiwns,  villages/ 
or  cities  in  his  county  or  superintendent  district,  on  the  last  day  of 
June  in  each  year;  and  in  case  there  are  any  parts  of  joint  districts 
lying  in  his  county  or  district  the  schGOlh\ouses  of  which  are  situated 
in  other  counties,  he  shall  report  to  the  county  superintendent  of  the 
county  in  which  the  schqolhouses  >of  said  joint  districts  are  located 
the  names,  sex  and  number  of  persons  of  school  age  residing  in  the 
parts  of  such  joint  districts  as  lie  in  his  county  or  superintendent 
district,  and  from  time  to  time  such  other  facts  relating  to  education 
in  his  district  as  the  state  superintendent  shall  require. 

Section  462.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  district  clerk,  between  the 
*  *  *  tenth  and  twenty-fifth  days  of  July  in  each  year,  to  make 
and  transmit  to  the  *  *  *  county  or  city  superintendent,  a  writ- 
ten report  *  *  *  bearing  date  as  of  the  thirtieth  day  of  June, 
of  such  year,  signed  by  him  and  verified  by  his  affidavit,  showing: 

First.  The  number,  names  and  ages  of  children,  male  and  fe- 
male designated  separately,  over  the  age  of  four  and  under  the  age 
of  twenty  years  residing  in  the  district,  and  the  names  of  their 
parents,  guardians  or  other  persons  with  whom  such  children  re- 
sided, respectively,  on  the  last  day  of  June  preceding.  But  no 
such  children  residing  in,  held  or  cared  for  at  any  charitable  or 
penal  institution  of  this  state  shall  be  included  in  such  enumeration 
or  report;  and  whenever  the  state  superintendent  shall  receive  in- 
formation that  any  such  children  have  been  enumerated  in  the 
school  census  of  any  school  district  included  in  the  reports  made 
to  him,  on  the  basis  of  which  apportionment  of  money  from  the 
school  fund  income  is  made,  he  may  require  from  the  district  clerk 
or  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  education  of  said  district  a  verified 
statement  of  the  whole  number  of  children  of  school  age  residing 
in  the  district  not  excluded  by  the  provisions  of  this  section,  in 
such  form  and  manner  as  the  said  superintendent  may  prescribe. 
Unless  the  certificate  herein  provided  for  shall  be  made  no  money 
shall  be  apportioned  for  the  benefit  of  said  school  district. 


38  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

Second.  The  whole  number  of  children,  males  and  females  des- 
ignated separately,  between  the  ages  of  four  and  twenty  years 
taught  in  the  district  school  during  the  year  for  which  such  report 
is  made  by  teachers  duly  qualified. 

Third.  The  number  attending  school  during  the  year  under  the 
age  of  four  and  the  number  over  the  age  of  twenty  years. 

Fourth.  The  whole  time,  in  days,  any  common  school  has  been 
taught  in  the  district,  including  holidays,  and  the  whole  number 
of  days  such  school  has  been  taught  by  teachers  qualified  accord- 
ing to  law,  including  holidays,  and  the  days  the  teachers  may  have 
attended  an  institute  during  the  year  while  t"he  school  was  in  ses- 
sion for  which  no  deduction  in  wages  was  made  by  the  district 
board. 

Fifth.  The  names  of  all  teachers  employed  during  the  year,  the 
number  of  days  taught  by  each,  including  holidays,  and  the  monthly 
wages  paid  to  each,  and  the  time  allowed  any  teacher  for  attend- 
ance on  any  institute  for  which  no  wages  were  deducted. 

Sixth.  The  amount  of  money  received  from  the  town  treasurer 
during  the  year,  designating  separately  the  amount  received  from 
apportionment  of  the  school  fund  income,  the  amount  received 
from  tax  levied  by  county  board  of  supervisors,  the  amount  received 
from  tax  voted  by  the  district,  and  the  amount  received  from  all 
other  sources  during  the  year,  and  the  manner  in  which  the  same 
has  been  expended,  showing  separately  the  expenditure  of  school 
money  received  from  the  state. 

Seventh.  Such  other  facts  and  statistics  in  relation  to  the 
schools,  public  or  private,  in  s'uch  district  as  the  state  superintend- 
ent may  from  time  to  time  require.  *  *  *  The  clerk  of  each  joint 
district  shall  report  to  the  county  or  city  superintendent,  as  the  case 
may  be,  the  number  of  children  residing  in  .each  part  of  the  several 
towns,  villages  lor  cities  embraced  in  such  joint  district.  He  shall 
also  report  the  amount  of  the  indebtedness  of  the  district.  Upon 
filing  with  the  county  superintendent  tvithin  the  time  set  by  law,  a 
complete  and  satisfactory  annual  report  setting  forth  all  the  fact.* 
required  by  law  to  be  reported  to  the  dounty  or  city  superintendent, 
and  such  other  information  as  may  be  called  for  by  either  the  county 
or  state  superintendent,  the  school  district  clerk  in  a  sch&j-l  district 
having  a  school  census  >o/  two  hundred  persons  or  less  shall  be  paid 
from  any  moneys  in  the  school  district  treasury  of  which  he  is  the 
clerk,  the  sum  of  ten  dollars,  and  in  all  other  districts  not  embrac- 
ing in  whole  or  i\n  part  an  incorporated  city,  twenty-five  'dollars,  and 
in  school  districts  embracing  in  whole  or  in  part  a  city,  such  sum  as 
the  body  electing  the  school  board  of  such  school  district  may  direct; 
provided,  such  school  clerk  shall  file  with  the  district  treasurer  a  cer- 


ANNUAL    REPORTS — COMPENSATIONS,    ETC.  #) 

tificate  signed  by  the  county  -or  city  suprintcndent  of  schools  setting 
forth  that  the  school  census  for  the  year  ioc$s  properly  takc^  and* 
that  all  reports  required  by  law  to  be  made  by  school  district  clerks  have 
been  filed  and  approved. 

Section  464.  1.  Each  county  superintendent  shall,  on  or  before  the 
fifteenth  day  of  *  *  *  September  in  each  year,  make  and  trans- 
mit to  the  state  superintendent  a  report  in  writing,  setting  forth  the 
whole  number  of  *  *  *  districts,  the  schoolhouses  of  which  are 
in  his  county  or  superintendent  district,  distinguishing  those  from 
which  the  required  reports  have  been  made-  to  him  by  the 
district  clerks,  and  containing  an  abstract  of  their  reports,  and  also 
embracing  an  abstract  of  the  annual  report  of  the  secretary  of  each 
free  high  school  in  such  district,  *  *  *  and  such  other  facts  and 
statistics  as  may  be  required  by  the  state  superintendent.  . 

2.  Each  county   superintendent   shall   also,    within    the    time   above 
mentioned,  make  and  deliver  to  the  county  clerk  and  to  the  county 
treasurer   a   written   statement  of  the   whole  number  of  children   in 
each  town,  village  and   city   under   his   supervision  over  the  age  of 
four  and  under  the  age  of  twenty  years  returned  from  the  districts 
which  have  maintained   schools  for    *     *     *     eight   or  more  months 
during  the  past  year  as   appears   from  the  reports  of     *     *     *    dis- 
trict clerks.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  cownty  superintendent,  on 
or  before  the  tenth  day  of  June  in  each  year,  t\o  send  to  each  school 
district  clerk  in  his   district  the  necessary    blanks  upon   which   the 
school  census  and  other  facts,  as  may  be  required  in  section  462,  may 
be  reported.    It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent,  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  Jwne  in  each  year,  to  furnish  each  county  and 
city  superintendent  with  the  necessary  blanks  upon  which  the  reports 
called  for  in  section  462  may  be  made  by  the  several  school  district 
clerks  in  the  several  counties  of  the  state. 

3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent,  on  receipt  of  a 
satisfactory  annual  rieport  within  the  time  specified  by  law,  to  issue 
to   each  county  or  district  superintendent  a  certificate  setting  forth 
the   fact  that   the   annual  report  required  in   this  section   has   been 
made,  filed  and  approved  within  the  time  specified  by  law. 

4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  clerk,  when  presented  with  the 
certificate  authorized  in  subsection  3,  immediately,  without  action  of 
the  county  board  of  supervisors,  to  draw  an  order  on  the  county  treas- 
urer in  fav*3r  of  the  county  superintendent  for  twenty-five  dollars  in 
county  \or  superintendent  districts  containing  fifty  or  less  school  dis- 
tricts; fifty  dollars  in  superintendent  districts  containing  more  than 
fifty  and  less  than  one  hundred  school  districts;  seventy-five  dollars  in 
superintendent  districts  containing  more  than  <cne  hundred  and  less 
than  one  hundred  and  fifty  school  districts,  and  one  hundred  dollars 


40  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

in  superintendent  districts  containing  more  than  one  hundred  and 
fifty  school  districts.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  treasurer  to 
pay  such  amounts  as  may  be  certified  by  the  county  clerk  from  any 
mfrney  in  the  general  fund  of  the  county  not  otherwise  appropriated. 
Section  465.  *  *  *  in  all  cities  having  a  city  superintendent  of 
schools  and  which  are  not  under  the  jurisdiction  of  a  county  super- 
intendent, such  superintendent  of  schools  shall  make  the  annual  report 
required  by  *  *  *  section  464  directly  to  the  state  superintend  ent. 
*  *  *  (1913  c.  448) 

This  chapter  amends  chapter  94,  and  is  itself  amended  by  chap- 
ter 765.  It  amended  chapter  94  by  depriving  the  electors  of  the 
privilege  of  voting  any  compensation  to  the  school  district  clerk. 
It  is  amended  by  chapter  566  inasmuch  as  the  provision  with  ref- 
erence to  holding  the  annual  school  meeting  iu  country  districts 
on  the  first  Monday  was  impossible  this  year,  owing  to  the  fact 
that  the  law  was  not  passed  until  after  the  first  Monday  in  June. 
It  was  also  amended  by  chapter  765.  (See  said  chapter  and  com- 
ments following.)  Chapter  448  provides,  among  other  things, 
that  the  district  clerk  shall  report  directly  to  the  county  super- 
intendent, and  makes  it  the  duty  of  the  county  superintendent 
'  to  notify  the  town,  village  or  city  clerk  of  the  number  of  chil- 
dren residing  in  his  town,  the  amount  of  taxes  levied  by  the 
district  and  the  assessed  valuation  of  the  district,  in  order  that 
he  may  make  the  proper  apportionment  of  school  moneys.  The 
district  clerk  is  to  receive  a  certain  specified  sum  if  his  annual 
report  is  properly  made  out  and  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  county 
superintendent  between  the  10th  and  25th  days  of  July. 

High  school  training  department  for  teachers.  (Section  496c) 
4.  Any  board  having  charge  of  a  free  high  school,  or  of  a  high 
school  having  a  course  of  study  equivalent  to  the  course  of  study 
prescribed  by  the  state  superintendent  for  free  high  schools,  in 
counties  where  county  training  schools  or  joint  county  training 
schools  have  not  been  established,  may  establish  and  maintain  in 
connection  with  such  high  school  a  teachers'  training  course,  which 
shall  be  especially  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  as  to  sub- 
jects required  to  be  taught,  and  the  qualifications  of  teachers  in 
such  course. 

See  chapter  555   for  later  measure  relating  to  teachers'  train- 
ing course  in  high  schools. 

Public  libraries  and  reading  rooms.  Section  931.  The  common 
council  of  every  city  of  the  second,  third  or  fourth  classes,  and  the 
board  of  trustees  of  every  village,  and  the  board  of  every  town, 
may  establish,  equip  and  maintain  a  public  library  and  reading 
room,  or  maintain  and  support  any  public  library  and  reading  room 
already  established  therein,  and  may  annually  levy  and  cause  to 
be  collected  as  other  general  taxes  are  collected,  a  tax  upon  the 
taxable  property  of  such  city,  village  or  town,  to  provide  a  library 


HIGH    SCHOOL  TRAINING   DEPARTMENTS.  41 

fund,  *  *  *  to  be  used  exclusively  to  maintain  such  library 
and  reading  room;  provided  that  in  lieu  of  supporting  and  main- 
taining such  a  public  library  and  reading  room,  the  common  coun- 
cil of  every  city  of  the  classes  named,  having  a  board  of  education, 
may,  when  deemed  best  for  the  interests  of  the  city,  levy  such  tax 
and  authorize  the  board  of  education  of  such  city  to  apply  and  ex- 
pend the  same  in  aid  of  the  maintenance  of  any  secular  or  non- 
sectarian  public  library  and  reading  room,  free  to  all  inhabitants 
of  such  city,  already  established  and  maintained  therein  by  any 
society,  association  or  corporation,  and  the  *  *  *  "board  of  edu- 
cation shall  in  such  cases  deposit  with  the  city  clerk  the  vouchers 
or  Mils  covering  the  expenditures  of  such  library  from  such  tax  fund, 
and  the  clerk  shall  draw  orders  on  the  treasurer,  who  shall  pay  the 
same  as  provided  in  subsection  3  of  section  933  of  the  statutes. 

(Section  933)  3.  They  shall  have  exclusive  control  of  the  expendi- 
tures of  all  moneys  collected  or  donated  for  the  library  fund,  the 
purchase  of  a  site  and  the  erection  of  the  library  building  thereon, 
and  the  supervision,  construction,  furnishing,  care  and  custody  of  the 
building  or  rooms  constructed,  leased  or  set  apart  for  library  pur- 
poses; and  such  moneys  shall  be  drawn  from  the  treasury  *  *  * 
in  the  manner  prescribed  herein.  The  library  board  shall  audit  and 
approve  all  vouchers  for  the  expenditures  of  such  library  and  shall 
forward  the  same  to  the  city  clerk  with  a  statement  thereon  signed 
by  the  secretary  that  the  expenditure  has  been  incurred  and  that  the 
library  board  has  audited  and  approved  the  bill.  The  city  clerk  shall 
thereupon  draw  his  order  upon  the  treasurer,  and  the  same  shall  be 
paid  as  other  city  orders  are  paid. 

Section  935.  1.  *  *  *  On  or  before  the  first  day  of  August  of 
each  year  the  said  board  of  directors  shall  make  an  annual  report  for 
the  year.  *  *  *  Such  report  shall  be  submitted  to  the  *  *  * 
Wisconsin  free  library  commission  and  shall  state  the  condition  of 
their  trust,  the  various  sums  of  money  received  from  the  library  fund 
and  all  other  sources,  and  how  much  money  has  been  expended,  the 
number  of  books  and  periodicals  on  hand,  the  number  added  during 
the  year,  the  number  lost  or  missing,  the  number  of  books  loaned  out, 
and  the  general  character  of  such  books,  with  such  other  statistics, 
information  and  suggestions  as  they  may  deem  of  general  interest. 
*  *  *  The  said  board  shall  also  include  in  said  annual  report  the 
names  of  the  directors  whose  terms  expire  at  the  time  the  report  is 
made. 

2.  Within  thirty  days  after  the  conclusion  of  'the  fiscal  year  of  the 
town,  city  or  village  in  which  such  library  is  located,  the  library  board 
shall  make  a  report  stating  the  condition  of  their  trust,  the  various 
sums  of  mloney  received  for  the  use  of  such  library  during  the  year, 


42  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

specifying  separately  the  amounts  received  from  appropriations,  from 
the  income  *of  trust  funds,  from  rentals  and  other  revenues  of  the  li- 
brary, and  'from  other  sources.  They  shall  also  set  tout  separately  the 
condition  of  the  permanent  trust  -funds  in  their  control.  The  said  re- 
port shall  state  in  detail  the  disbursements  on  account  of  such  library 
and  shall  contain  an  estimate  of  the  needs  of  the  library  for  the  next 
succeeding  fiscal  year. 

Section  925 — 43.  The  city  treasurer  shall  collect  all  city,  county 
and  state  taxes,  receive  all  moneys  belonging  to  the  city  or  which  by 
law  are  directed  to  be  paid  to  him,  keep  an  accurate  account  of  the 
same  in  suitable  books  prepared  for  that  purpose,  and  i3ay  over  the 
money  in  his  hands  according  to  law  only  upon  the  lawful  order  of  the 
city  council,  signed  by  the  mayor  and  countersigned  by  the  clerk.  He 
shall  keep  a  detailed  account  of  the  money  received  and  disbursed  by 
him  in  such  manner  as  the  council  shall  direct;  his  books  shall  at  all 
reasonable  times  be  open  to  inspection  by  any  voter  of  the  city.  He 
shall  make  a  report  to  the  council  each  month  and  as  much  oftener 
as  required,  which  report  shall  embrace  a  statement  of  the  receipts 
and  disbursements  in  his  office;  and  ten  days  preceding  every  annual 
election  he  shall  make  and  file  in  the  city  clerk's  office  a  full  and  min- 
ute report  of  all  the  moneys  received  and  disbursed  by  him,  of  all 
tax  certificates,  vouchers  and  other  effects  of  pecuniary  value  in  his 
possession,  and  all  other  transactions  relating  to  his  office  from  the 
date  of  the  like  report  of  his  predecessor  to  the  date  of  the  report 
required  to  be  made  by  him.  *  *  *  Except  as  herein  and  other- 
wise provided  he  shall  have  such  power  and  authority  and  perform 
such  duties  as  treasurers  in  villages  and  towns  are  required  to  perform 
under  these  statutes.  He  shall  receive  no  fees  or  per  diem  except 
the  salary  fixed  by  the  council  prior  to  his  election,  but  all  fees  col- 
lected by  him  shall  be  paid  into  the  city  treasury  at  the  end  of  each 

*    *    *     day. 

Section  925 — 119.  1.  The  board  of  education  shall  prior  to  the  first 
day  of  *  *  *  October  each  year  make  an  estimate  of  the  expense 
of  the  public  schools  for  the  ensuing  year,  including  all  necessary  in- 
cidental expenses  and  the  amount  thereof  which  it  will  be  necessary 
to  raise  by  city  taxation  and  certify  the  same  to  the  city  clerk  who 
shall  lay  the  same  before  the  common  council  at  *  *  *  its  next 
regular  meeting.  *  *  *  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  common  council 
to  consider  such  estimate  and  by  resolution  *  *  *  determine  the 
amount  to  be  raised  by  city  taxation  for  school  purposes  for  the 
ensuing  year,  which  amount  so  fixed  shall  be  included  in  the  annual 
budget  to  be  raised  by  a  tax  called  the  city  school  tax,  which  shall 
be  collected  the  same  as  other  taxes. 


LIBRARIES — PROFESSIONAL   SCHOOLS,    ETC.  43 

2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  treasurer  to    *     *     *     keep  all 
moneys  raised  in  any  way  for  school  purposes,  whether  by  the  state, 
the  county  or  the  city,  coming  into  his     *     *     *     hands  and  to  pay 
out  the  same  whenever  the  board  of  education  shall  present  to   the 
city  clerk  a  certified  bill,  voucher  or  schedule  signed  by  its  president 
and  Secretary  setting  forth  the  names  of  the  claimants,  the  amounts 
of  each  claim  and  the  purpose  for  which  expended;  such  city  clerk 
shall  issue  orders  upon  the  city  treasurer,  who  shall  pay  the  amounts 
thereof,  provided  that  funds  are  on  hand  in  the  city  treasury  appro- 
priated for  school  purposes  sufficient  to  pay   the  same. 

3.  Provided     *      *      *      that   in   any   city   adopting   this   chapter, 
if  at  the  time  of  such  adoption  the  board  of  education  or  school 
board  shall  have  power  to  levy  the  city  school  tax  or  the  district 
school  taxes,  such  power  shall  continue  unaffected  by  this  chapter, 
and  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  such  city  nor  be  in  force  therein 
until  specially  adopted  by  a  vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  members 
o?  the  council.     (1913  c.  490) 

Professional  school  defined;  high  school  training  departments 
may  be  maintained  in  certain  counties.  (Section  450 — 1)  2.  In 
this  act  "professional  school  for  teachers"  shall  mean  a  state  nor- 
mal school,  a  county  training  school  for  teachers,  any  school  in 
rank  above  a  high  school,  offering  a  course  for  teachers  equivalent 
to  that  offered  in  the  state  normal  schools  of  Wisconsin,  in  counties 
where  county  training  schools  or  joint  county  training  schools  have 
not  been  established,  *  *  *  a  free  high  school  which  provides  and 
maintains  a  teachers'  training  course  approved  as  to  course  of  study 
and  qualifications  of  teachers,  by  the  state  superintendent,  or  a 
teachers'  institute  maintained  under  such  conditions  and  restrictions 
as  may  be  provided  for  by  the  board  of  regents  of  normal  schools, 
provided  that  such  institute  shall  be  taught  by  at  least  two  teachers 
and  be  of  not  less  duration  than  six  weeks,  and  shall  have  in  con- 
nection therewith  a  model  or  practice  school. 

(Section  450 — 1)  3.  A  third  grade  certificate  shall  entitle  the 
holder  to  teach  for  such  period,  not  more  than  one  year,  as  may 
be  specified  therein,  in  the  superintendent's  district  in  which  the 
certificate  is  issued.  A  third  grade  certificate  may  be  renewed  if 
the  holder  shall  during  the  life  of  the  certificate  attend  a  profes- 
sional school  for  teachers  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  six  weeks 
and  shall  receive  in  such  school  credits  in  at  least  two  subjects 
required  for  a  second  grade  certificate.  The  holder  of  a  third 
grade  certificate  may  also  renew  the  same  by  passing  an  examina- 


44  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

tion    in    all    the    subjects    required    for    a    third    grade    certificate. 
(1913  c.  491) 

This   act  also   prohibits   high   school  teachers'  training   depart- 
ments maintained   in  certain  counties  from  being  recognized   as 
"professional  schools.     See  Chapter  555  laws  of  1913  section  49Gb, 
etc.,  page  52  of  this  pamphlet. 

Plan  of  procedure  in  changing  existing  form  of  school  govern- 
ment in  certain  cities.  Section  926 — 117o.  1.  In  any  city  of  the 
second,  third  or  fourth  class  organized  and  operating  under  a  spe- 
cial charter,  upon  presentation,  to  the  city  clerk,  of  a  petition 
signed  by  electors  thereof,  qualified  to  vote  on  school  matters, 
equal  in  number  to  thirty  per  cent  of  the  votes  cast  in  any  such 
city  for  all  candidates  for  state  superintendent  of  public  instruc- 
tion at  the  last  preceding  election  of  such  officer,  requesting  that 
the  board  of  education  of  such  city  shall  be  elected  pursuant  to 
section  926 — 117p  of  the  statutes,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city 
council  to  submit  such  question  to  the  electors  of  such  city  at  a 
special  election,  duly  called,  noticed  and  held  pursuant  to  the  pro- 
visions of  law  governing  special  elections  in  such  city. 

2.  If  a  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast  upon  such  question  at  such 
election  be  in  the  affirmative,  then  the  board  of  education  shall  be 
elected  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  said  section  926— 
117p. 

Section  926 — 117p.  1.  When  the  electors  have  decided  in  the 
affirmative  under  section  926 — 117o,  the  board  of  education  shall 
consist  of  seven  members  elected  at  large  from  the  territory  of 
such  city.  The  members  of  such  board  shall  be  divided  as  nearly 
equal  as  may  be  into  three  classes.  One  class  of  three  members 
shall  be  elected  for  one  year,  one  class  of  two  members  for  two 
years,  and  those  of  the  remaining  class  for  three  years.  Such 
members  shall  be  elected  at  the  annual  spring  election  held  in 
such  city.  The  names  of  the  candidates  for  such  office  shall  be 
printed  upon  a  separate  ballot  under  the  title  "members  of  the 
board  of  education." 

2.  At    the   next    annual    spring    election    there    shall    be    elected 
seven  members  to  constitute  the  board  of  education  for  such  school 
district.     All   qualified  electors   within  such   city  shall   be  entitled 
to  vote  for  such  members  of  the  board  of  education  at  such  elec- 
tion. 

3.  At  the  first  election  held  for  the  office  of  member  of  the  board 
of  education,  the  two  persons  receiving  the  highest  number  of  votes 
shall  be  elected  for  three  years,  the  two  receiving  the  next  highest 
number  of  votes  shall  be  elected  for  two  years,  and  the  three  re- 
ceiving the  next  highest  number  of  votes  shall  be  to  elected  for  one 


CHANGING  —  $3000  AID  —  HUMANE  EDUCATION.  45 

year.  Each  elector  voting  at  such  first  election  shall  be  entitled 
to  vote  for  seven  candidates.  Thereafter  such  electors  shall  elect 
at  each  spring  election  members  of  the  board  of  education  for  the 
term  of  three  years.  Each  elector  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  for  as 
many  candidates  as  there  are  members  to  be  elected  and  the  ones 
receiving  the  highest  number  of  votes  shall  be  elected. 

4.  The  votes  cast  at  such  election  shall  be  canvassed  and  return 
thereof    certified    to    the    common    council.      The    common    council 
shall  canvass   the   returns   of   such   election   and   shall   declare   the 
result  thereof  as  for  city  officers. 

5.  The  persons  elected  in   accordance   herewith   shall   constitute 
the  board  of  education  of  such  school  district.     The  term  of  office 
of  each  such  member  shall  commence  on  the  first  day  of  May  fol- 
lowing such  election  and  each  member  shall  hold  office  until  his 
successor  is  elected  and  qualified.     Vacancies  in  such  board  of  edu- 
cation shall  be  filled   by  appointment  by  the   mayor  of  such   city 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  council.     Notices  of  election  under 
this    statute    shall    be    given    as    in    other    elections    in    said    city. 
(1913  c.  494) 

If  the  people  of  any  city  operating  under  a  special  charter  de- 
sire to  change  their  present  method  of  directing  the  school  work 
of  the  city,  this  chapter  provides  that  method. 

County  training  schools;  aid  for.  (Section  411  —  5)  2.  Upon 
the  receipt  of  such  report,  if  it  shall  appear  that  the  school  has 
been  maintained  in  a  satisfactory  manner  for  a  period  of  not  less 
than  ten  months  during  the  year  closing  on  the  thirtieth  day  of 
the  preceding  June,  the  said  superintendent  shall  make  a  certificate 
to  that  effect  and  file  it  with  the  secretary  of  state.  Upon  receiv- 
ing such  certificate,  the  secretary  of  state  shall  draw  his  warrant, 
payable  to  the  treasurer  of  *  *  *  such  school  for  *  *  * 
an  amount  equal  to  the  sum  expended  for  the  wages  of  duly  approved 
and  qualified  teachers  employed  in  the  school  for  at  least  ten  months 
during  the  school  Wear,  provided  that  a  school  employing  two  teachers 
shall  not  receive  to  exceed  $3,000  and  a  school  employing  three  or  more 
teachers  shall  not  receive  to  exceed  $3,500  in  any  one  school  year.  (1913 
c. 


Humane  education.  Section  553a  —  1.  In  all  public  schools  in 
this  state  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  and  every  teacher  to  teach 
morality,  for  the  purpose  of  elevating  and  refining  the  character 
of  school  children  up  to  the  highest  plane  of  life;  that  they  may 
know  how  to  conduct  themselves  as  social  beings  in  relation  to 
each  other,  as  respects  right  and  wrong  and  rectitude  of  life,  in 
addition  to  the  other  branches  of  study  now  prescribed,  and  kind- 


46  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

ness  to  and  humane  treatment  and  protection  of  dumb  animals  and 
birds,  their  lives,  habits,  and  usefulness,  and  the  important  part 
they  are  intended  to  fulfill  in  the  economy  of  nature,  and  such 
studies  on  the  subject  as  the  board  of  education  may  adopt. 
(1913  c.  506) 

This  provides  some  work  for  teachers  along  a  new  line  and  in 
all  grades. 

Special  aid  to  state  graded  schools  for  transportation  and  teach- 
ing agriculture.  Section  496f.  The  state  superintendent  is  hereby 
authorized  to  appoint  two  persons  of  suitable  qualifications  to  as- 
sist him  in  inspecting  and  supervising  the  state  graded  and  free 
high  schools,  and  to  aid  him  in  giving  information  and  needed  as- 
sistance to  localities  in  organizing  such  schools.  Such  persons  shall 
be  known  as  state  school  inspectors,  and  shall  each  receive  an  an- 
nual salary  of  eighteen  hundred  dollars,  and  reimbursement  for 
all  actual  and  necessary  traveling  expenses  incurred,  when  duly 
certified  to  by  the  state  superintendent;  said  salary  and  expenses 
to  be  paid  monthly  from  the  general  fund,  and  to  be  deducted 
before  the  apportionment  is  made  from  the  annual  appropriation  pro- 
vided for  *  *  *  special  state  aid  for  graded  schools  *  *  *. 
Said  state  school  inspectors,  when  not  engaged  in  the  specific  duties 
enumerated  herein,  may  be  assigned  for  such  other  duties  as  the  state 
superintendent  may  determine  and  designate. 

(Section  496e)  6.  Any  school  district  which  shall  have  main- 
tained a  graded  school  of  the  first  or  second  class,  in  which  spe- 
cial instruction  in  agriculture  and  such  other  industrial  subjects 
as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruc- 
tion shall  have  been  offered,  shall  receive  in  addition  to  the 
amount  heretofore  mentioned,  an  appropriation  of  one  hundred 
dollars  annually,  provided  that  the  course  of  study  in  agriculture 
and  the  other  industrial  subjects  prescribed  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent shall  have  been  followed,  that  the  work  shall  have  been 
presented  in  an  efficient  manner  by  a  competent  teacher,  and  shall 
have  been  approved  by  the  state  superintendent,  or  some  member 
of  his  staff. 

7.  Whenever  two  or  more  school  districts  maintaining  one-de- 
partment rural  schools  shall  consolidate  and  establish  and  maintain 
in  such  enlarged  district  a  state  graded  school  of  either  the  first 
or  second  class,  and  shall  provide  transportation  for  all  persons 
living  more  than  two  miles  from  such  consolidated  school,  accord- 
ing to  the  provisions  of  section  419e  of  the  statutes,  then  there 
shall  be  apportioned  to  such  district,  in  addition  to  the  apportion- 
ments heretofore  authorized,  an  additional  sum  of  jone  hundred 


SPECIAL  AID  FOR  AGRICULTURE.  47 

dollars  annually,  as  special  state  aid,  provided  such  consolidated 
districts  shall  fully  comply  with  all  the  provisions  of  the  law  re- 
lating to  state  graded  schools. 

Section  172 — 56.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  1,  not 
to  exceed  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys 
in  the  general  fund,  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  special  state 
aid  for  graded  schools  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  sections  496d 
to  496h,  inclusive.  If  more  state  aid  be  demanded  it  shall  be  paid 
proportionally.  (1913  c.  513) 

This  chapter  provides  that  an  additional  special  state  aid  may 
be  granted  to  state  graded  schools  in  the  amount  of  $100  in  cases 
where  agricultural  instruction  is  properly  given.  It  also  provides 
an  additional  sum  of  $100  annually  to  encourage  transportation 
•of  pupils  living  more  than  two  miles  from  the  school.  It  is  evi- 
dent that  the  purpose  of  this  statute  is  to  encourage  consolida- 
tion of  school  districts  and  centralization  of  school  interests  and 
to  create  a  general  interest  in  agriculture. 

State  teachers'  licenses  and  certificates.  Section  458b.  The 
state  superintendent  shall  issue  to  the  holder  of  a  diploma,  granted 
by  the  board  of  regents  of  normal  schools  to  any  person  who 
completed  the  kindergarten  training  course  established  by  said 
board  in  any  of  the  state  normal  schools,  a  license  entitling  the 
holder  to  teach  in  any  public  kindergarten  in  this  state  for  one 
year.  Upon  the  presentation  of  satisfactory  evidence  of  successful 
teaching  for  c\ne  year  in  any  public  kindergarten  in  this  state  such 
license  may  ~be  renewed  for  one  year  by  the  state  superintendent  The 
holder  of  such  a  diploma  may  receive  an  unlimited  state  certificate,  en- 
titling him  or  her  to  teach  in  any  public  kindergarten  in  this  state  for 
life  unless  sooner  revoked,  upon  the  furnishing  of  evidence  of  good 
moral  character,  and  *  *  *  two  years'  successful  teaching  after 
graduation,  in  a  public  kindergarten  in  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  to- 
gether with  the  certificate  required  in  section  458b — 2. 

Section  458b — 1.  The  state  superintendent  shall  issue  to  the  holder 
of  a  diploma  granted  by  the  board  of  regents  of  normal  schools  to  any 
person  who  completes  the  training  course  for  teachers  of  manual  train- 
ing or  domestic  science,  established  by  said  board  in  any  of  the 
Wisconsin  state  normal  schools  a  license  entitling  the  holder  to  teach 
manual  training  or  domestic  science  for  one  year  in  any  school  form- 
ing a  part  of  the  public  school  system.  Upon  the  presentation  of  satis- 
factory (evidence  of  successful  teaching  for  one  year  of  manual  training 
or  domestic  science  in  any  school  forming  a  part  of  the  public  school 
system  such  license  may  be  renewed  for  one  year  by  the  state  super- 
intendent. The  holder  of  such  diploma  may  receive  an  unlimited  state 
certificate  entitling  him  to  teach  manual  training  or  domestic  science 
in  any  public  school  in  this  state  for  life,  unless  sooner  revoked, 


48  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

upon  furnishing  evidence  of  good  moral  character,  and  *  *  *  two 
*  *  *  years'  successful  teaching  of  such  branches,  after  graduation, 
in  a  public  school  in  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  together  with  the  certi- 
ficate required  in  section  458b — 2. 

(Section  458b— 2)  1.  The  president  of  the  university  of  Wisconsin 
shall  issue  to  all  graduates  of  the  regular  collegiate  courses  of  such 
university,  a  certified  statement  showing  the  name  of  the  graduate, 
the  date  of  graduation,  the  course  from  which  graduated,  and  that 
said  graduate  has  completed  the  course  of  pedagogical  instruction 
prescribed  by  the  university  for  all  persons  who  intend  to  teach.  This 
certificate  when  presented  to  the  state  superintendent,  shall  entitle 
the  holder  thereof  to  receive  a  license  qualifying  the  holder  to  teach 
in  any  public  school  in  the  state  of  Wisconsin  for  one  year  from  the 
date  of  issuance.  Upon  presentation  of  satisfactory  evidence  of  suc- 
cessful teaching  for  one  year  in  the  public  schools  of  the  state,  such 
license  may  be  renewed  for  >one  year  by  the  state  superintendent. 

(Section  548b — 2)  2.  The  president  of  each  state  normal  school 
shall  issue  to  the  graduates  of  the  full  course  of  the  normal  school, 
as  well  as  to  the  persons  completing  the  elementary  course,  a,  state- 
ment bearing  even  date  with  the  diploma  or  certificate,  setting  forth 
the  name  of  the  person  and  the  course  from  which  graduated.  This 
certificate  when  presented  to  the  state  superintendent,  shall  entitle 
the  holder  thereof  to  receive  a  license,  qualifying  the  holder  to  teach 
in  the  public  schools  of  Wisconsin  for  one  year  from  date  of  issuance. 
Upon  the  presentation  «/  satisfactory  evidence  of  successful  teaching 
for  one  year  in  the  public  schools  of  the  state,  such  license  may  be 
renewed  for  one  year  by  the  state  superintendent. 

(Section  458b — 2)  3.  The  state  superintendent,  upon  the  presen- 
tation of  a  statement  hereinbefore  mentioned  in  this  section,  and  sat- 
isfactory evidence  of  good  moral  character,  and  *  *  *  two  *  *  * 
years'  successful  teaching  after  graduation  in  the  public  schools  of 
the  state  of  Wisconsin,  shall  issue  certificates  as  follows:  To  any 
person  who  shall  hold  a  university  or  normal  school  diploma,  an  un- 
limited state  certificate;  to  any  person  who  shall  hold  a  normal 
school  elementary  certificate,  a  limited  state  certificate,  qualifying 
the  holder  to  teach  in  a  public  school  for  a  period  not  to  exceed  six 
years  from  the  date  of  issuance  of  the  normal  school  certificate. 
Neither  a  limited  state  certificate,  nor  a  license  to  teach  based  upon 
the  certificate  from  the  elementary  course  of  a  normal  school,  shall 
qualify  the  holder  as  principal  of  a  free  high  school  having  four 
years'  course  of  study. 

Section  458c.  The  holder  of  a  diploma  granted  by  any  incor- 
porated college  or  university  whose  regular  collegiate  courses  ares 
fully  and  fairly  equivalent  to  corresponding  courses  of  the  Univer- 


TEACHERS'  LICENSES— TUITION— IND.  H.  S.  49 

sity  of  Wisconsin,  or  the  holder  of  a  diploma  granted  by  a  state 
normal  school  whose  courses  of  study  are  fully  and  fairly  equiva- 
lent to  the  courses  of  study  in  the  Wisconsin  normal  schools,  may 
present  such  diploma,  together  with  evidence  of  the  required  stand- 
ing of  the  college,  university  or  normal  school  granting  the  same, 
to  the  board  of  examiners.  The  applicant  shall  furnish  therewith 
testimonials  of  good  moral  character  *  *  *  and  of  two  years' 
successful  teaching  in  a  public  school  after  the  date  of  said  di- 
ploma. The  holder  of  any  such  diploma  recommended  favorably 
by  the  board  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  an  unlimited  state  certifi- 
cate. The  holder'  of  a  diploma  granted  upon  the  completion  of  a 
course  of  study  accredited  as  herein  provided,  upon  which  a  state 
certificate  has  not  been  issued,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 
board  of  examiners  made  in  pursuance  of  such  examination  as  to 
learning,  moral  character  and  ability  to  teach  as  said  board  may 
require,  *  *  *  may  receive  frtom  the  state  superintendent  a  license 
qualifying  the  holder  to  teach  in  any  public  school  in  the  state  for 
one  year  from  the  date  of  issuance,  upon  the  presentation  of  satisfac- 
tory evidence  of  successful  teaching  for  one  year  in  the  public  schools 
of  the  state.  Such  license  may  be  renewed  for  one  year  by  the  state 
superintendent. 

(Section  458q)  2.  The  applicant  shall  furnish  therewith  testimon- 
ials of  good  moral  character  and  of  *  *  *  two  years'  successful 
teaching  in  a  kindergarten  or  primary  grades  in  the  public  schools 
in  Wisconsin  after  the  date  of  such  diploma.  (1913  c,  514) 

This  chapter  requires  at  least  two  years  of  teaching  on  the 
part  of  graduates  of  universities,  colleges  and  normal  schools 
before  the  state  superintendent  can  grant  the  unlimited  state  cer- 
tificate. The  special  licenses  granted  are  only  good  for  one  year 
each. 

Attendance  and  tuition  of  non-residents  enrolled  in  "independent 
high  schools.  Section  496 j — 1.  1.  The  school  board  of  board  of 
education  in  any  incorporated  city  maintaining  a  graded  system  of 
schools  of  at  least  twelve  grades,  but  no  free  high  school,  the  four 
upper  grades  of  which  contain  substantially  the  same  amount  and 
character  of  work  as  adopted  and  offered  in  free  high  schools  es- 
tablished according  to  the  provisions  of  section  490  of  the  statutes, 
shall  admit  to  the  privileges  of  the  four  upper  grades  or  high 
school  department  of  such  graded  system  of  schools,  whenever  the 
facilities  in  the  four  upper  grades  or  high  school  department  will 
permit,  nonresident  pupils,  whose  parents  or  guardians  live  in  a 
school  district  not  maintaining  a  free  high  school  or  one  equiva- 
lent thereto,  and  who  have  completed  the  course  of  study  offered 
in  the  home  school  district  which  must  have  been  at  least  equivalent 

4— S.  L. 


50  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

to  the  course  of  study  provided  for  the  common  schools  of  Wiscon- 
sin, and  who  hold  certificates  or  diplomas  to  that  effect  signed  by 
the  county  superintendent  of  schools  of  the  county  in  which  the 
parents  or  guardians  reside.  In  such  cases  the  school  board  or 
board  of  education  of  such  city  school  district  shall  be  entitled, 
and  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed,  to  collect  from  the  town 
or  village  in  which  the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  persons  re- 
side a  sum  not  to  exceed  one  dollar  per  week  as  tuition,  which 
shall  entitle  such  persons  to  all  the  privileges  accorded  to  the 
resident  pupils  of  such  school  district  and  which  shall  be  in  full 
for  all  charges  for  the  schooling  of  such  persons.  In  case  any 
such  city  school  district  shall  not  comply  with  the  provisions  of 
this  section  it  shall  be  deprived  of  its  right  to  share  in  the  appor- 
tionment of  the  seven-tenths  mill  tax  for  the  year  in  which  the 
provisions  of  this  section  were  violated. 

2.  Said  dollar  per  week  tuition  shall  be  collected  and  paid  In 
the  same  manner  as  tuition  is  now  collected  and  paid  to  free  high 
school  districts  for  the  schooling  of  nonresident  pupils,  as  pro- 
vided in  sections  49 6j  to  4 9 60  of  the  statutes.  (1913  c.  516) 

This  chapter  puts  what  are  styled  "Independent  High  Schools" 
on  the  same  basis  with  district  free  high  schools,  town  free  high 
schools  and  union  free  high  schools  in  the  matter  of  admitting 
non-resident  pupils  and  charging  tuition. 

Teachers'  insurance  in  Milwaukee.      (Section  925 — xx)   3.    * 

Hereafter  any  person  accepting  an  appointment  as  teacher  in  the 
regular  service  of  such  city,  and  shall  serve  thereunder,  shall,  as  a 
part  \df  the  consideration  for  his  employment,  be  conclusively  presumed 
to  have  consented  to  serve  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  to  have 
'accepted  the  benefits  conferred  and  assumed  the  liabilities  imposed 
by  the  same. 

19.    *    *    * 

The  board  of  school  directors,  or  tother  managing  body,  shall  an- 
nually pay  into  the  annuity  and  retirement  fund,  out  of  the  school 
fund  assessed,  levied  and  collected  annually  from  the  taxable  property 
of  the  city,  for  g&n'eral  school  purposes,  the  sum  of  one  per  cent  of 
the  gross  amount  thereof;  provided,  however,  that  if  such  sum  exceeds 
the  amount  paid  into  said  fund  the  preceding  year  by  the  teatchers, 
then  only  a  sum  equal  to  that  paid  in  by  the  teachers  th6  preceding 
year  shall  be  paid  in  by  the  board. 

(Section  925 — xx)  20.  This  act  shall  be  construed  to  apply  to 
school  districts  existing,  or  hereafter  to  be  created,  within  the 
cities  to  which  it  applies  where  the  functions  of  such  school  dis- 
trict are  exercised  separate  and  distinct  from  the  functions  of  the 
other  departments  of  the  city  government,  and  in  such  cases  the 


STATUTES    FOR    MILWAUKEE.  f>  1 

school  district  treasurer,  where  there  is  one,  shall  perform  the  du- 
ties and  assume  the  liabilities  imposed  by  this  act  on  the  city 
treasurer;  and  where  the  word  "city"  is  used  in  this  act  it  shall 
be  construed  to  mean  the  school  district  in  such  city,  when  there 
is  one,  where  it  manifestly  appears  that  such  construction  i.s  nec- 
essary to  carry  into  effect  the  spirit  of  this  act.  (1913  c.  546) 
This  chapter  applies  to  Milwaukee  only. 

Borrowing  money  and  purchasing  school  sites  in  counties  having 
a  population  of  150,OOD  or  more.  Section  476a.  1.  Any  school 
district  may,  by  a  vote  at  an  annual  or  special  meeting,  authorize 
the  district  board  to  borrow  money  for  the  purpose  of  refunding 
its  indebtedness.  A  written  resolution  shall  be  read  at  such  meet- 
ing specifying  the  amount  to  be  borrowed,  the  rate  of  interest 
and  the  amount  of  each  instalment  of  principal  and  time  when  it 
shall  be  paid.  The  last  instalment  shall  be  payable  in  not  exceed- 
ing twenty  years  from  the  time  the  indebtedness  was  originally 
contracted.  The  vote  on  such  resolution  shall  be  taken  by  ballot, 
and  voters  favoring  its  adoption  shall  cast  a  ballot  on  which  shall 
be  the  words  "For  the  loan,"  those  opposed  a  ballot  on  which  shall 
be  the  words  "Against  the  loan."  If  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast 
are  in  favor  of  the  loan  the  board  may  borrow  the  specified  amount 
on  such  terms  as  may  be  agreed  upon  conformably  with  such  reso- 
lution and  not  prohibited  by  law,  and  execute  the  bonds  or  other 
obligations  of  the  district  for  such  sum.  The  district  shall  levy  a 
tax  to  be  collected  annually  thereafter  sufficient  to  pay  the  an- 
nual interest  on  such  loan  and  the  instalment  of  the  principal  to 
be  paid  in  any  year.  After  any  such  loan  shall  have  been  made 
such  vote  shall  not  be  rescinded  or  reconsidered,  nor  shall  the  col- 
lection of  such  tax  be  obstructed,  and  the  tax  when  collected  shall 
be  applied  exclusively  to  the  payment  of  such  indebtedness.  The 
money  so  borrowed  shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  and  shall  be  ex- 
pended solely  for  the  purpose  for  which  it  was  borrowed. 

2.  In  counties  containing  a  population  of  ,cne  hundred  and  fifty  thou- 
sand or  more  any  school  district  may  also  authorize  the  district  board, 
school  b'^ard,  [or  'board  of  education,  to  borrow  money  for  the  purpose 
of  purchasing  or  paying  for  a  schoolhouse  site,  or  an  addition  thereto, 
to  an  amount  not  exceeding  a>  sum  which  shall  ~be  certified  t3  by  the 
town  board  of  the  town,  or  the  village  board  of  the  village,  in  which 
such  site  is  situated,  as  being  necessary  for  that  purpose,  and  there- 
upon such  district  board,  school  board  or  board  of  education  shall  have 
the  authority  to  execute  bonds  or  other  evidences  of  indebtedness,  and 
to  annually  levy  a  tax  for  the  repayment  of  such  indebtedness  mid 
interest,  in  the  manner  a>nd  under  the  restrictions  provided  in  sections 
475  and  476, 


52  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

Section  477.  1.  Whenever  a  school  district  shall  have  desig- 
nated, by  a  majority  vote  of  the  electors  thereof  present  at  an  an- 
nual meeting,  or  at  a  special  meeting  called  for  that  purpose,  a 
schoolhouse  site,  or  an  addition  thereto,  and  shall  be  unable  to 
obtain  the  same  on  account  of  the  refusal  of  the  owner  to  sell  or 
lease  the  same  for  a  just  and  reasonable  compensation,  or  on  ac- 
count of  his  being  a  nonresident,  or  unknown,  the  district  board, 
when  directed  so  to  do  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  electors  at  such 
district  meeting  shall  make  application  to  the  town  board  or 
boards  of  supervisors  of  the  town  or  towns  interested,  to  locate 
and  establish  the  site  or  any  addition  thereto  so  designated;  pro- 
vided that  every  such  schoolhouse  site  or  any  schoolhouse  site 
obtained  by  purchase  or  grant  shall  be  located  and  established 
abutting  on  a  public  highway  or  street,  and  that  no  schoolhouse 
shall  hereafter  be  erected  on  any  site  unless  at  the  time  of  erec- 
tion such  site  shall  abut  on  a  public  highway  or  street. 

2.  Whenever  any  such  schoolhouse  site  or  addition  thereto,  so  desig- 
nated by  a  school  district,  shall  lie  within  the  limits  of  am,  incorporated 
village,  then  the  application  to  locate  and  establish  such  site,  or  any 
addition  thereto,  herein  mentioned  and  described,  shall  be  made  to  the 
village  board  (of  such  village,  and  all  subsequent  proceedings  described 
in  this  section  and  in  sections  478,  479,  480,  481  and  483,  as  being  had 
before  the  town  boards,  shall  be  had  before  the  village  board  of  said 
village. 

Section  482.  No  schoolhouse  site  shall  contain  more  than  four  acres 
unless  with  the  consent  of  the  owner  of  the  land  taken  therefor, 
except  in  counties  having  a  population  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thou- 
sand or  more.  All  land  so  taken  against  the  will  of  the  owner,  when 
is  shall  cease  to  be  used  as  a  school  house  site  or  addition,  shall  revert 
to  the  original  owner,  his  heirs  or  assigns;  and  no  land  shall  be  so 
taken  that  may  not  be  taken  for  highway  purposes  without  the  con- 
sent of  the  owner  thereof.  (1913  c.  547) 

High  school  teachers'  training  departments;  aid  for.  (Section 
49 6b)  1.  Any  board  having  charge  of  a  free  high  school  or  of 
a  high  school  having  a  course  of  study  equivalent  to  the  course 
prescribed  by  the  state  superintendent  for  such  free  high  schools 
may  establish  and  maintain  in  connection  with  the  high  school 
under  its  management,  in  counties  where  county  training  schools, 
or  joint  county  training  schools  have  not  been  established,  a  teachers' 
training  course,  which  shall  be  especially  approved  by  the  state  super- 
intendent as  to  subjects  required  to  be  taught,  and  the  qualifications  of 
teachers,  or  in  connection  with  said  high  school  and  the  *  *  *  two 
upper  grades  next  below  the  high  school,  as  said  board  shall  decide, 


HIGH    SCHOOLS — TEACHERS    TRAINING    DEPT'S.          53 

a  department  of  manual  training,  or  domestic  economy,  or  agriculture, 
or  any  or  all  of  said  departments. 

(Section  496c)  1.  Any  school  whose  course  of  study  or  outline  of 
work  in  teachers'  training,  manual  training,  domestic  economy,  or  agri- 
culture, has  been  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  and  whose 
teacher  has  been  qualified  may,  upon  application,  be  placed  upon  the 
approved  list  of  schools  maintaining  such  a  department  or  departments. 

5.  On  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year  the  board  of  education  of 
the  high  school  district,  maintaining  in  connection  with  its  high  school 
such  a  department  of  teachers'  training,  as  provided  in  subsection  1  of 
section  496b,  shall  report  to  the  state  superintendent  setting  forth 
the  facts  relating  to  the  cost  of  instruction  in  this  department  of 
such   schools,    the   character   of   the   work    done,    the   number   and 
names  of  teachers  employed,  the  number  of  pupils  enrolled  in  this 
department,  the  number  of  graduates  for  that  year,  and  such  other 
matters  as  may  be   required.     Upon  receipt   of   such   report,   if  it 
shall  appear  that  the  school  has  been  maintained  in  a  satisfactory 
manner  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  nine  months,  during  the  year 
closing  the   30th   day   of  June  preceding,   the  state  superintendent 
shall  make  a  certificate  to  that  effect  and  file  it  with  the  secretary 
of   state.     Upon    receiving    such    certificate   the   secretary   of  state 
shall    draw    his    warrant,    payable   to    the    treasurer   of   such   high 
school  district  so  maintaining  such  department  in  such  high  school, 
for  an  amount  equal   to  the  sum  expended  for  the  wages  of  the 
duly  approved  and  qualified  teachers  employed  in  this  department 
of  such  school  for  at  least  nine  months  during  said  school  year. 

6.  No  course  for  the  training  of  teachers  shall  be  established  in 
a   high   school   employing    less   than    four    teachers,    including   the 
principal,  and  unless  the  teacher  employed  to   give  instruction  in 
professional  work  and  practice  teaching  shall  be  a  graduate  of  the 
advanced  course  from  a  Wisconsin  state  normal  school  or  a  school 
offering  a  course  of  study  equivalent  to  the  course  of  study  offered 
in  the  Wisconsin  state  normal  schools,  and  who  shall  in  addition 
present  evidence  satisfactory  to  the  state  superintendent  of  having 
at  least  two  years  of  successful  experience  as  a  teacher,  and  who 
shall  devote  her  full  time  to  the  work  of  this  department,  and  at 
least  ten   pupils   must  have   elected   to   take   such   training   course 
during  the  current  year,  and,  provided  further,  that  no  school  shall 
be  continued  on  the  list  of  schools  offering  courses  for  the  train- 
ing of  teachers  unless  the  work   done   therein  shall   meet  the  ap- 
proval of  the  state  superintendent. 

7.  Any  person  who  shall  complete  in  a  satisfactory  manner  the 
course  of  study  prescribed  for  such  department  in  such  high  school, 


54  SCHOOL   LAW    SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

and  who  shall  be  of  good  moral  character,  shall  receive  a  certifi- 
cate, signed  by  the  principal  of  such  school  and  by  the  members  of 
the  board  of  education,  of  such  high  school  district.  Said  certi- 
ficate shall  certify  that  the  person  therein  named  has  satisfactorily 
completed  the  course  of  study  prescribed  for  such  teachers'  train- 
ing course,  and  is  of  good  moral  character.  It  shall  also  contain 
a  list  of  standings  secured  by  the  person  on  the  completion  of  each 
of  the  studies  pursued  in  the  school.  Such  certificate  shall  have 
the  same  force  and  effect  as  is  prescribed  for  certificates  by  sec- 
tion 411 — 6  of  the  statutes  relating  to  county  training  schools. 

(Section  172 — 108)  2.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July 
1,  not  to  exceed  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  payable  from  any 
moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated  as  state  aid 
for  teachers'  training  courses  in  high  schools  and  graded  schools. 
(1913  c.  555) 

This  new  statute  is  of  large  importance  to  boards  of  education 
having  high  schools  employing  four  teachers,  not  including  the 
teacher  or  teachers  in  the  training  department.  This  training 
school  comes  under  the  head  of  a  "professional  school  for  teach- 
ers." A  department  of  this  kind  can  only  be  established  under 
this  statute  in  counties  where  there  is  no  county  training  school 
for  teachers.  If,  however,  it  occurs  that  a  teachers'  training  de- 
partment has  already  been  established  and  approved  in  connec- 
tion with  a  free  high  school  previous  to  the  passage  of  this  act — 
(June  20,.  2913),  the  maintenance  and  operation  of  said  depart- 
ment is  not  interfered  with  in  any  way. 

Free  high  schools:  state  aid.  Section  496.  1.  Any  free  high 
school  district  which  shall  have  established  not  more  than  two  free 
high  schools  according  to  the  provisions  of  these  statutes  and  shall 
have  maintained  the  same  for  not  less  than  eight  months  in  any 
school  year,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  from  the  general  fund  of 
the  state  annually  one-half  of  the  amount  actually  expended  for 
instruction  in  its  high  school  during  such  year  over  and  above 
the  amount  required  by  law  to  be  expended  for  common  school 
purposes,  but  not  to  exceed  in  one  year  five  hundred  dollars  to 
one  district;  provided,  that  this  limitation  shall  not  apply  to  town 
or  union  free  high  schools. 

2.  To  obtain  such  aid,  the  high  school  board,  or  in  cities  not 
under  a  county  superintendent,'  the  president  and  secretary  of  the 
board  of  education,  and  the  treasurer  shall,  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  August  report  to  the  state  superintendent  under  their  oaths 
the  amount  actually  expended  for  instruction  ^  in  the  high  school 
during  the  previous  school  year,  specifying  the  several  items 
thereof  with  the  date  and  object  of  each  fully,  whereupon  the  said 
superintendent  shall,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  October,  fix  the 
amount  to  be  paid  each  such  district  and  certify  the  same  to  tlie 


FREE  HIGH   SCHOOLS — STATE   AID.  55 

secretary  of  state,  who  shall  thereupon  draw  his  warrant  on  the 
state  treasurer  for  such  amounts  in  favor  of  such  districts,  which 
shall  be  paid  at  any  time  after  the  first  day  of  October  out  of  the 
general  fund  in  the  state  treasury;  provided,  that  the  state  super- 
intendent may  refuse  to  certify  such  state  aid  for  any  free  high 
school  district  in  which  the  scope  and  character  of  the  work  are 
not  maintained  in  such  manner  as  to  meet  his  approval  or  in 
which  the  high  school  building,  the  outhouses  and  grounds  or  the 
furniture  and  equipment  are  not  maintained  in  good  condition  and 
kept  clean  and  free  from  any  unsanitary  features;  or  in  which  tile' 
high  school  is  not  provided  with  sufficient  equipment,  including 
globes,  maps,  blackboards,  library,  scientific  apparatus,  and  other 
essentials  for  the  proper  work  of  the  school,  or  for  failure  to  com- 
ply with  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  free  high  school  law.  He 
may  order  and  direct  that  an  amount  equal  to  the  whole  or  part 
of  such  state  aid  for  any  year  shall  be  expended  in  the  purchase 
of  proper  equipment  and  in  case  of  failure  of  the  district  to  com- 
ply with  such  direction,  he  shall  withhold  from  the  aid  to  that 
district,  an  amount  equal  to  the  sum  ordered  to  be  expended. 

3.  Whenever,   owing  to   any   failure  or  neglect  to   make  the   re- 
port required  by  law,  any  free  high  school  shall  fail  to  have  ap- 
portioned to  it,  its  share  of  the  state  aid,  the  state  superintendent 
may,  at  the  time  of  making  the  next  annual  apportionment,  fix  an 
amount   ten   per  centum    less   than   the   amount   which   said   school 
district  would  have  been  entitled  to  had  it  complied --with  the  pro- 
visions  of   this    section,   and   certify   the   same   to   the   secretary   of 
state,  and  the  secretary  of  state  shall  thereupon  draw  his  warrant 
for  such  amount  or  amounts  in   favor  of  such  district. 

4.  Whenever  a  free  high  school  shall  have  been  so   established 
and  maintained  in  a   district  composed  of  a  town,  or  a  town  and 
an   incorporated  village   within   the   town,   or   two   or   more  towns, 
or   of  two   or   more   towns   and  an   incorporated  village   in   one   or 
both  of  them,  or,  according  to  the  provisions  of  section  495 — 1  of 
the  statutes,   upon  receiving  the  report  provided  for  in  subsection 
2  of  this  section,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent 
to  make  a  separate  and  distinct  class  of  schools  thus  established, 
and  each  such  school  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  from  the  general 
fund  of  the  state  annually,  one-half  the  amount  actually  expended 
for    instruction    therein;     and    said    superintendent    shall    fix    the 
amount  to  be  paid  to  each  of   said  high   schools   and   certify  the 
same  to  the  secretary  of  state  at  the  time  and  in  the  manner  he 
is  now  required  to  fix  and  certify  to  him  the  amount  to  be  paid  to 
high   school    districts;    provided,   that   the   amount  so   appropriated 
to  any  high  school  having  a  principal  and  one  assistant  shall  not 


66  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

exceed  nine  hundred  dollars,  and  the  amount  so  appropriated  to 
any  high  school  having  a  principal  and  two  assistants  shall  not 
exceed  twelve  hundred  dollars,  and  the  amount  so  appropriated 
to  any  high  school  having  a  principal^  and  three  or  more  assistants 
shall  not  exceed  fifteen  hundred  dollars. 

5.  The  secretary  of  state  shall  annually  include  and  apportion  in 
the  state  tax  all  such  sums  as  shall  have  been  paid  to  district, 
town,  or  union  free  high  schools,  in  accordance  with  the  provi- 
sions of  subsections  2,  3  and  4  of  this  section,  which  sum  shall  be 
in  addition  to  all  other  sums  levied  for  the  year. 

Section  172 — 57.  1.  The  whole  amount  annually  paid  under 
the  provisions  of  subsections  2  and  3  of  section  496  shall  not  ex- 
ceed one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  if  more  be  demanded  by 
such  districts  they  shall  be  paid  proportionally;  provided,  that  if 
the  whole  amount  authorized  to  be  paid  annually  in  aid  of  town 
and  union  free  high  schools,  as  provided  by  subsection  4  of  section 
496  and  subsection  2  of  this  section  is  not  demanded  or  expended 
under  the  provisions  of  those  sections,  then  the  unexpended  balance 
of  the  amount  therein  annually  authorized  to  be  paid  in  aid  of 
such  schools  may  be  added  to  the  amount  authorized  to  be  paid  in 
subsections  2  and  3  of  section  496  to  district  high  schools  and 
apportioned  among  the  free  high  schools  provided  for  in  subsection 
1  of  section  496. 

2.  The  amount  of  any  certificate  referred  to  in  subsection  4  of 
section  496  shall  be  paid  at  any  time  after  the  first  day  of  October, 
out  of  the  general  fund  of  the  state  treasury,  but  the  whole  amount 
so  paid  shall  not  exceed  seventy-five  thousand  dollars  in  any  one 
year  to  this  class  of  free  high  schools  and  if  more  is  demanded  by 
such  districts  they  shall  be  paid  proportionally.  (1913  c.  558) 

This  statute  should  be  carefully  studied  and  read  by  high  school 
principals,  high  school  officers  and  county  and  city  superintend- 
ents. 

State  superintendent;  power  to  appoint  in  certain  cases.  Sec- 
tion 165c.  1.  The  state  superintendent  may  appoint  from  time  to 
time  persons  to  assist  him  in  revising  the  courses  of  study  for  the 
public  schools,  in  conducting  the  annual  conventions  of  county  and 
city  superintendents,  and  in  making  investigations  into  the  needs 
and  condition^  of  the  public  schools  of  the  state.  The  persons  so 
appointed  for  this  purpose  shall  receive  no  compensation  for  their 
services  but  shall  be  paid  all  necessary  and  actual  expenses  incur- 
red in  the  performance  of  their  duties. 

2.  The  state  superintendent  is  authorized  to  employ  at  his  dis- 
cretion from  the  eligible  list  prepared  by  the  civil  service  commis- 
sion, clerks  and  statisticans  to  assist  him  in  tabulating  the  educa- 


SPECIAL   ASSISTANTS— SCHOOL   LOANS.  57 

tional  statistics  of  the  state,  in  summarizing  the  data  obtained  by 
investigators  appointed  according  to  the  provisions  of  subdivision 
1  of  this  section,  and  in  assisting  in  the  clerical  work  of  the  ad- 
ministration of  the  department  of  public  instruction.  The  persons 
so  appointed  shall  receive  compensation  as  may  be  determined  by 
the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction. 

3.  The  state  superintendent  shall  certify  to  the  secretary  of 
state  the  amount  due  any  persons  appointed  or  employed  under  the 
provisions  of  this  section  for  expenses  or  for  salary  as  provided  in 
this  section.  Upon  receipt  of  such  certificate  duly  certified  by  the 
state  superintendent,  the  secretary  -of  state  shall  draw  his  warrant 
upon  the  state  treasurer  for  the  amount  due  the  persons  named, 
but  in  no  case  shall  the  total  sum  so  certified  in  any  one  year  ex- 
ceed two  thousand  dollars.  Expenses  arising  under  this  section 
shall  be  charged  to  the  appropriation  for  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  instruction.  (1913  c.  561) 

Loans;  school  districts,  villages,  etc.  Section  258a.  The  loans 
provided  for  by  subdivision  5  of  the  preceding  section  may  be 
made  for  any  term  not  exceeding  twenty  years,  may  be  made  pay- 
able in  instalments,  and  be  in  such  amounts  as  shall  not,  in 
connection  with  all  other  indebtedness  of  the  town,  village,  city  or 
county  applying  therefor,  exceed  five  per  centum  of  the  average 
assessed  valuation  of  the  taxable  property  therein  for  the  three 
years  next  preceding  the  application  for  such  loan;  provided,  that 
such  loan  may  be  made  to  pay  off  existing  indebtedness  and  may 
be  paid  over  in  instalments  as  fast  as  such  indebtedness  or  the 
evidence  thereof  is  canceled.  The  rate  of  interest  on  such  loans 
shall  not  be  less  than  four  per  centum  per  annum.  Loans,  appli* 
cation  for  which  shall  have  been  filed  with  the  commissioners  of  the 
public  lands  prior  to  the  passage  of  this  section,  may  be  made  at  the 
then  lawful  rate  of  interest. 

Section  261.  Every  loan  to  a  school  district  may  be  made  for  such 
time,  not  exceeding  fifteen  years,  and  of  such  amount  as  together  with 
all  other  indebtedness  of  such  district,  "shall  not  exceed  five  per  centum 
of  the  last  preceding  assessed  valuation  of  the  property  in  such  dis- 
trict, not  less  than  two-thirds  of  which  valuation  shall  be  on  real 
estate,  and  not  exceeding  in  any  case  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  as 
may  be  agreed  upon;  the  principal  shall  be  payable  in  equal  annual 
instalments  with  interest  at  a  uniform  rate  of  four  per  centum  per 
annum,  payable  annually.  No  such  loan  shall  be  made  until  proof 
be  filed  in  the  office  of  said  commissioners  of  the  complete  perform- 
ance on  the  part  of  such  district  of  each  and  every  act  hereinafter 
required  to  precede  the  same.  Loans,  application  for  which  shall  have 


58  SCHOOL   LAW    SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

been  filed  with  the  commissioners  of  the  public  lands  prior  to  the  pas- 
sage of  this  section,  may  be  made  at  the  then  lawful  rate  of  interest. 
(1913  c,  563) 

The  principal  point  in  this  chapter  is  that  it  increases  the  rate 
per  cent  to  be  paid  by  school  districts  for  loans  from  the  trust 
funds  from  3%  to  4  per  cent. 

Annual  school  district  meetings.  Section  425.  The  annual  dis- 
trict meeting  in  all  school  districts  not  containing  in  whole  or  in 
part  an  incorporated  city  or  village  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Mon- 
day in  June,  but  in  all  school  districts  containing  in  whole  or  in 
part  an  incorporated  city  or  village  it  shall  be  held  on  the  first 
Monday  of  July,  unless  that  be  a  legal  holiday,  in  which,  case  it 
shall  be  held  on  the  next  day  at  seven  o'clock  in  the  afternoon 
unless  another  hour  be  fixed  by  a  vote  recorded  at  the  last  annual 
meeting,  and  any  annual  meeting  heretofore  or  hereafter  held  shall 
be  valid  notwithstanding  any  provision  to  the  contrary  in  any  special 
or  local  law,  provided  that  that  part  of  this  section  fixing  the  date  of 
the  annual  school  district  meeting  shall  not  become  effective  until  the 
third  day  of  January,  1914.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  district  board 
to  meet  on  the  Saturday  immediately  preceding  the  annual  meeting, 
carefully  examine  the  accounts  of  the  treasurer,  and  make  up  a  full 
and  itemized  report  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures  since  the  last 
annual  meeting,  of  the  amount  in  the  hands  of  the  treasurer  or  the 
amount  of  the  deficit  for  which  the  district  is  liable,  of  the  amount 
necessary  to  be  raised  by  taxes  for  the  support  of  the  school  for  the 
ensuing  year,  and  of  the  amount  required  to  pay  the  interest  or  prin- 
cipal of  any  debt  due  or  to  become  due  during  such  year;  which  re- 
port shall  be  submitted  in  writing  at  the  annual  meeting  and  recorded 
by  the  clerk  at  length  with  the  action  thereon  in  the  proceedings  of 
the  meeting.  (1913  c.  566) 

This  amends  chapter  448,  which  provides  that  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  common  school  districts  should  be  held  on  the  first  Mon- 
day in  June,  by  .postponing  the  date  when  it  takes  effect  until 
January,  1914. 

Election  and  salary  of  school  directors  in  Milwaukee.  Section  1. 
The  public  schools  in  every  city  of  the  first  class,  whether  organ- 
ized under  general  or  special  charter,  shall  be  under  the  general 
management,  control  and  supervision  of  a  board  of  school  directors, 
'consisting  of  fifteen  members  from  the  city-at-large,  selected  as 
provided  in  this  act.  No  person  holding  any  office  in  any  political 
organization,  or  any  lucrative  city,  county  or  state  office  other 
than  a  judicial  office  "or  that  of  notary  public,  shall  be  eligible  to 
be  a  member  of  such  board  of  school  directors.  The  members  of 
every  such  board  of  school  directors  shall,  before  entering  upon  the 


ANNUAL   MEETINGS— DISTRICT    BOUNDARIES.  59 

duties  of  such  office,  take  and  subscribe  to  the  oath  of  office  pre- 
scribed in  the  constitution  of  this  state,  and  shall  file  the  same, 
duly  certified  by  the  officer  administering  the  same,  with  the  city 
clerk.  Each  member  of  every  such  board  of  school  directors  shall  be 
paid  the  sum  of  three  dollars  for  attendance  at  each  regularly  called 
meeting  of  any  sla>nding  or  special  committee  of  which  such  director 
may  be  a  member  and  alslo  the  sum  of  three  dollars  for  attendance  at 
each  regular  or  duty  called  special  meeting  of  the  board;  provded, 
that  the  sum  thus  paid  to  any  member  of  such  board  for  attendance 
on  committee  and  board  meetings  shall  not  in  any  fiscal  year  exceed 
the  sum  of  lone  hundred  dollars.  The  amount  due  for  attendance  as 
provided  herein  shall  be  allowed  and  paid  monthly,  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  other  claims  are  alloived  and  paid.  (1913  c.  569) 

Alteration  of  boundaries  and  dissolution  of  joint  school  districts. 
Sections  422.  1.  Any  school  district  organization  of  any  kind, 
town  free  high  schools  and  union  free  high  schools  excepted,  con- 
sisting of  territory  lying  in  two  or  more  towns,  or  in  one  or  more 
towns  and  an  incorporated  village,  or  any  city,  shall  be  known  and 
designated  as  a  joint  school  district.  Such  district  shall  not  be 
dissolved  nor  shall  the  boundaries  thereof  be  changed  except  by 
joint  action  of  the  boards  of  supervisors  of  the  towns,  parts  of 
which  comprise  such  district,  or  joint  action  of  the  supervisors  of 
the  town  or  towns  and  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  village,  or  the 
joint  action  of  the  boards  of  supervisors  of  the  town  or  towns  and 
the  common  council  of  the  city  in  interest,  such  action  to  be  taken 
in  accordance  with  the  statutes  governing  and  directing  such  action 
and  proceedings. 

2.  Be  it  also  provided  that  the  incorporation  of  a  village  or  a 
city  within  the  boundaries  of  any  school  district  shall  not  affect 
the  organization  or  in  any  way  disturb  the  rights  and  privileges 
of  such  district,  except  that  such  district  shall  thereafter  be  known 
as  a  joint  district. 

3-.  Be  it  further  provided  that  the  extension  of  the  corporate 
limits  of  any  village  or  city  or  the  change  of  organization  from  a 
village  to  a  city  shall  not  in  any  way  affect  the  boundaries  of  such 
joint  district  or  disturb  any  of  the  rights  and  privileges  of  the  resi- 
dents of  such  district.  Neither  shall  it  be  unlawful  to  attach  to 
any  village  or  city  school  district  for  school  purposes  only,  part  or 
all  of  the  territory  of  an  outlying  contiguous  school  district. 

4.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  in  any  way  affect  or  change  any 
of  the  provisions  of  section  419a  of  the  statutes,  relating  to  the 
alterations  of  the  boundaries  of  joint  school  districts,  or  of  sections 


gO  SCHOOL   LAW    SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

519b  to   419h,  inclusive,  of  the  statutes,   relating  to  consolidation 

of  several  districts.     (1913  c.  572) 

This  chapter  is  of  especial  interest  to  town  boards  of  super- 
visors and  others  interested  in  the  formation  of  school  districts  or 
the  alteration  of  school  district  boundaries. 

Employment  of  children.  (Section  1728c)  1.  No  child  under 
the  age  of  sixteen  years  shall  be  employed,  required,  permitted  or 
suffered  to  work  at  any  gainful  occupation  other  than  domestic  serv- 
ice or  farm  labor  for  more  than  forty-eight  hours  in  any  one  week, 
nor  more  than  eight  hours  in  any  one  day,  or  before  the  hour  of 
seven  o'clock  in  the  morning  or  after  the  hour  of  six  o'clock  in  the 
evening,  nor  more  than  six  days  in  any  one  week.  Provided  that 
employment  not  to  exceed  eight  hours  and  thirty  minutes  in  any  one 
day  may  be  permitted  to  children  o<n  condition  that  the  children  s*;> 
employed  shall  t>e  free  frpm  labor  after  twelve  o'clock  on  Saturday; 
provided  'that  no  child  so  employed  shall  be  permitted  to  work  more 
than  forty-eight  hours  in  any  one  week,  including  at  least  Jour 
hours  'of  attendance  at  continuation  school,  mir  between  six  o'clock 
in  the  evening  and  seven  o'clock  in  the  morning.  A  *  *  *  dinner 
period  of  not  less  than  thirty  minutes  shall  be  allowed  during  each 
day.  During  such  dinner  period  the  power  shall  be  shut  off  from  ma- 
chinery operated  by  children,  and  no  work  shall  be  permitted.  Pro- 
vided, nothing  in  sections  1728a  to  1728J,  inclusive,  shall  be  con- 
strued to  interfere  with  the  employment  of  children  as  provided  in 
sections  1728a — 1  and  1728u  of  the  statutes. 

(Section  1728c — 1)  1.  Whenever  any  *  *  *  day  continuation 
classes,  industrial  school  or  commercial  school  shall  be  established  in 
any  town,  village  or  city  in  this  state  for  minors  between  the  ages 
of  fourteen  and  sixteen,  working  under  permit  as  now  provided  by 
law,  every  such  child,  residing  withing  any  town,  village  or  city  in 
which  any  such  school  is  established,  shall  attend  such  school  in  the 
daytime  not  less  than  five  hours  per  week  for  six  months  in  each 
year,  until  such  child  becbmes  sixteen  years  of  age,  or  four  hours 
per  week  for  eight  months,  as  may  be  determined  by  the  local  board 
of  industrial  education,  and  every  employer  shall  allow  all  minor 
employes  over  fourteen  and  under  sixteen  years  of  age  a  reduction 
in  hours  of  work  not  less  than  the  number  of  hours  the  minor  is  by 
this  section  required  to  attend  school. 

(Section  1728d)  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  *  *  *  indus- 
trial commission  to  enforce  all  the  provisions  of  the  statutes  regu- 
lating or  relative  to  child  labor,  and  to  prosecute  violations  of  the 
same  before  any  justice  of  the  peace  or  other  court  of  competent  jur- 
isdiction in  this  state.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  *  *  * 
industrial  commission  and  truant  officers,  and  they  are  hereby  au- 


EMPLOYMENT  OF  CHILDREN.  61 

thorized  and  empowered  to  visit  and  inspect,  at  all  reasonable  times, 
and  as  often  as  possible,  all  places  covered  by  sections  1728a  to 
1728J,  inclusive.  The  *  *  *  industrial  commission,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  the  enforcement  of  sections  _T728a  to  112SJ,  inclusive,  shall 
have  the  power  of  truant  officers  to  enforce  all  legal  requirements 
relating  to  school  attendance. 

(Section  2394 — 52)  (2)  To  administer  and  enforce,  so  far  as  not 
otherwise  provided  for  in  the  statutes,  the  laws  relating  to  child  la- 
bor, laundries,  stores,  employment  of  females,  licensed  occupations, 
school  attendance,  bakeries,  -employment  offices,  intelligence  offices  and 
bureaus,  manufacture  of  cigars,  sweatshops,  corn  shredders,  wood- 
sawing  machines,  fire  escapes  and  means  of  egress  from  buildings, 
scaffolds,  hoists,  ladders  and  other  matters  relating  to  the  erection, 
repair,  alteration  or  painting  of  buildings  and  structures,  and  all 
other  laws  protecting  the  life,  health,  safety  and  welfare  of  employes 
in  employments  and  places  of  employment  and  frequenters  of  places 
of  employment.  (1913  c.  584) 

This  act  cannot  properly  be  termed  a  school  measure.  Since  it 
has,  however,  to  do  with  the  employment  of  children,  it  was  given 
a  place  in  this  connection  in  order  that  its  provisions  may  be 
more  widely  known.  Some  reference  to  the  compulsory  attend- 
ance law  is  not  out  of  place  in  this  connection.  The  sections  re- 
ferred to  will  be  found  in  the  edition  of  the  complete  school  code 
for  1911. 

COMMENT  ON  SECTION  439a. 

This  section  provides  that  children  between  7  and  14  years  of 
age  shall  attend  some  public,  parochial  or  private  school;  in  Mil- 
waukee during  the  entire  time  that  the  school  is  in  session:  in 
all  other  cities  not  less  than  eight  months  and  in  towns  and  in 
villages  not  less  than  six  months — 120  days  (including  legal  hol- 
idays). Children  between  14  and  16  years  of  age  must  also  at- 
tend unless  they  are  regularly  and  lawfully  employed. 

The  above  labor  law  indicates  quite  exactly  what  is  meant  by. 
lawful  employment."  A  child  between  14  and  16  may  be  law- 
fully employed  as  follows: 

a.  On  a  written  permit  obtained  from  the  commissioner  ot 
labor,  state  factory  inspector  or  an  assistant  factory  inspector; 
from  the  judge  of  a  county  court,  judge  of  a  municipal  court, 
or  a  judge  of  a  juvenile  court. 

b.  In  domestic  service  or  agricultural  pursuit  without  per- 
mit. 

Cases  where  children  claim  to  be  regularly  employed  at  home 
or  elsewhere  should  be  investigated  by  the  truant  officer  for  the 
purpose  of  determining  whether  the  child  is  really  employed  in 
good  faith  or  is  making  the  claim  for  the  purpose  of  evading 
school  attendance.  If  the  employment  is  not  in  good  faith  action 
must  be  taken  at  once  to  compel  the  attendance  of  the  child  at 
school. 

In  the  city  of  Milwaukee  the  child  must  be  enrolled  in  school 
at  the  beginning  of  the  school  year;  in  other  cities,  towns  and 


62  SCHOOL   LAW    SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

villages  within  one  school  month  of  the  opening  of  school  in  the 
fall. 

The  children  coming  under  the  following  classes  cannot  be 
compelled  to  attend  school: 

a.  Children  not  in   proper  physical  or   mental   condition,   as 
shown   by   the   certificate    of  a    reputable   physician    in   general 
practice. 

b.  Children    residing    in    country    districts    more    than    two 
miles   from  the   school  house,   the  distance  to  be  measured   by 
the  nearest  traveled  road  unless  transportation  is  furnished  by 
the  district. 

c.  Children  who  can  furnish  evidence  that  they  have  com- 
pleted the  work  of  the  first  eight  grades  of  the  public  school  or 
the  equivalent  thereof. 

In  cases  where  the  claim  is  made  that  the  child  is  receiving 
instruction  elsewhere  than  in  school  there  should  be  investiga- 
tion by  some  proper  officer; 

After  a  child  is  enrolled  in  the  school  the  attendance  must  be 
regular  unless  some  satisfactory  legal  (reasonable)  excuse  for 
absence  is  furnished.  The  law  requires  that  the  parent  or  guar- 
dian shall  see  to  it  that  the  child  shall  attend  school  as  required. 

Comment  on  Section  439b. 

This  section  provides  for  the  appointment  of  truant  officers 
to  assist  in  the  enforcement  of  the  law — ten  or  more  in  Milwau- 
kee and  ten  or  more  for  each  city  of  the  state  having  a  popula- 
tion of  more  than  two  thousand.  It  is  compulsory  upon  the 
boards  of  education  to  appoint  these  officers.  The  sheriff,  under- 
sheriff  and  deputy  are  by  law  made  truant  officers  for  cities  hav- 
ing less  than  two  thousand,  and  also  in  towns  and  villages.  When 
notice  of  the  absence  of  a  child  from  school  is  brought  to  the 
attention  of  the  truant  officer,  it  is  his  duty  to  investigate  the 
case  for  the  purpose  of,  determining  whether  such  absence  is  or  is 
not  lawful.  If  the  absence  is  inexcusable  he  must  take  action 
at  once  to  compel  the  attendance  of  the  child. 

Authorizing  the  county  board  of  supervisors  to  provide  for  a 
county  agricultural  representative  to  be  elected  by  the  board  of 
regents  of  the  state  university.  Section  553q — 1.  For  the  pur- 
pose of  aiding  in  the  agricultural  development  of  the  several 
counties  in  the  state,  any  county,  excepting  those  in  which  county 
schools  of  agriculture  are  maintained,  .is  hereby  authorized,  through 
its  county  board,  to  establish  and  maintain  an  agricultural  repre- 
sentative in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Section  553q — 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  agricultural  rep- 
resentative to  advise  and  consult  with  individuals  in  reference  to 
farming  methods;  to  aid  in  the  development  and  improvement  of 
agriculture  and  country  life  conditions;  to  offer  courses  of  instruc- 
tion to  young  people  and  adults;  to  aid  in  the  formation  of  co- 
operative enterprises;  to  promote  better  business  methods  among 
farmers;  to  give  such  assistance  as  possible  in  the  development  of 
agricultural  teaching  in  the  schools  of  the  county,  and  any  other 


UNIVERSITY  AGRICULTURAL  REPRESENTATIVE.          63 

work  designed  to  promote  the  agriculture  or  rural  development  of 
the  county.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  keep  in  touch  with  all  agencies 
in  the  state  and  elsewhere  that  will  enable  him  to  utilize  the  most 
Improved  knowledge  in  the  furtherance  of  his  work. 

Section  553q — 3.  For  the  partial  maintenance  of  agricultural 
development  of  such  county  under  the  supervision  of  such  agricul- 
tural representative,  authority  is  hereby  given  the  county  board  to 
raise,  by  tax  levy  or  otherwise,  for  periods  of  not  less  than  two 
years  each,  such  moneys  as  may  be  deemed  sufficient  to  cover  the 
share  of  the  county  In  such  way;  provided,  however,  that  in  no 
case  shall  the  amount  appropriated  by  the  county  for  this  work  be 
less  than  one  thousand  dollars  annually;  and  provided,  further, 
that  such  moneys  shall  be  disbursed  by  the  county  treasurer  only 
upon  orders  of  the  county  clerk  which  shall  have  been  approved  by 
the  county  agricultural  representative. 

Section  553q — ,4.  To  supplement  the  funds  provided  by  the 
county  for  the  agricultural  development,  state  aid,  in  the  sum  of 
one  thousand  dollars  annually,  shall  be  given  to  each  county  in 
which  the  county  board  has  made  the  required  appropriation,  and 
in  which  a  county  agricultural  representative  has  been  established. 
Such  state  aid  shall  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  the  board 
of  regents  of  the  university  of  Wisconsin. 

Section  553q — 5.  For  the  calendar  year  1914,  this  work  shall  be 
organized  in  not  to  exceed  ten  counties  of  the  state  and  for  the 
calendar  year  1915  in  not  to  exceed  sixteen  counties  of  the  state. 

Section  553q — 6.  Immediately  after  the  county  board  has  voted 
to  establish  the  position  of  county  agricultural  representative  and 
has  provided  the  necessary  money  for  the  share  of  the  county  there- 
for, the  county  clerk  shall  send  the  application  of  such  county  to 
the  dean  of  the  college  of  agriculture  for  the  appointment  and  es- 
tablishment of  such  county  agricultural  representative.  All  appli- 
cations from  the  several  counties  shall  be  so  made  prior  to  Decem- 
ber 10  of  each  year,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  possible.  In  case  the 
applications  do  not  exceed  the  maximum  limit  of  counties  that  can 
be  provided  for  in  this  act,  the  board  of  regents  shall  select  as 
soon  as  possible  a  properly  qualified  person  to  serve  in  each  county 
in  the  capacity  of  county  agricultural  representative.  If,  however, 
more  applications  are  received  than  can  be  acted  on  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  the  dean  of  the  college  of  agricul- 
ture shall  recommend  to  the  board  of  regents  a  list  of  counties  not 
in  excess  of  the  maximum  number  authorized  by  this  act,  taking 
into  consideration  in  making  such  selection  the  best  interests  of 
the  agricultural  welfare  of  the  state. 


64  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

Section  553q — 7.  Authority  is  hereby  given  the  county  training 
school  board  of  any  county  in  which  an  agricultural  representative 
is  established  to  enter  into  co-operation  with  the  regents  of  the 
university  with  reference  to  the  use  of  the  county  agricultural 
representative  in  connection  with  the  agricultural  instruction  given 
in  said  county  training  school  subject  to  such  rules  and  conditions 
as  may  be  mutually  agreed  upon  between  said  county  training 
school  board  and  the  regents  of  the  university. 

Section  553q — 8.  In  counties  where  the  work  of  the  county 
agricultural  representative  is  not  connected  with  the  county  train- 
ing school,  the  county  superintendent  of  schools  in  such  county 
shall  co-operate  with  the  county  agricultural  representative  in  such 
way  as  best  designed  to  further  the  interest  of  this  work  in  that 
county. 

(Section  172 — 53)  22.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  Jan- 
uary 1st,  beginning  January,  1914,  to  the  regents  of  the  university, 
ten  thousand  dollars  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  sec- 
tions 553q — 1  to  553q — 8,  inclusive. 

(Section  172 — 53)  23.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  Jan- 
uary 1,  beginning  January,  1915,  to  the  regents  of  the  university, 
sixteen  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general 
fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  carrying  out  the  provisions 
of  sections  553q — 1  to  553q — 8,  inclusive. 

(Section  172 — 53  24.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  Jan- 
uary 1,  beginning  January,  1916,  to  the  regents  of  the  university, 
payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appro- 
priated, a  sum  sufficient  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  sections 
553q — 1  to  553q — 8,  inclusive.  (1913  c.  Gil) 

This  chapter  is  of  especial  interest  to  county  boards  of  super- 
visors in  certain  counties.  The  burden  of  supporting  this  county 
agricultural  representative  is  to  be  partly  borne  by  the  county 
and  partly  by  the  state  university.  The  representative  is  to  be 
selected  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  and  is  to  be 
recommended  to  said  board  of  regents  by  the  dean  of  the  Col- 
lege of  Agriculture. 

Admission  of  non-residents  to  high  schools;  tuition,  etc.  Sec- 
tion 496k.  Whenever  persons,  not  residing  in  any  free  high  school 
district  and  having  completed  the  course  of  study  in  the  school 
district  in  which  *  *  *  they  reside,  *  *  *  or  one  equiv- 
alent thereto,  as  herein  provided,  enter  any  free  high  school  in 
Wisconsin,  or  any  free  high  school  in  another  state,  which  is  nearer 
to  the  home  of  such  persons  than  any  free  high  school  in  this 
state,  offering  a  course  of  study  equivalent  to  the  course  of  study 
in  free  high  schools  in  Wisconsin,  the  free  high  school  board  of 


SHORT  COURSE  IN  AGRICULTURE,  ETC.  65 

that  district  shall  be  entitled  and  is  hereby  authorized  to  charge 
a  tuition  fee  for  such  pupils  not  to  exceed  one  dollar  per  week. 
On  or  before  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year,  the  secretary  of  the 
free  high  school  board  shall  make  a  sworn  statement  to  the  clerk 
of  the  city,  town  or  village  from  which  any  person  may  have  been 
admitted  to  said  free  high  school.  Said  statement  shall  set  forth 
the  residence,  name,  age  and  date  of  entrance  to  such  school,  and 
the  number  of  months  attendance  during  the  preceding  school 
year  of  each  person  so  admitted  from  such  city,  town  or  village; 
this  statement  shall  show  the  amount  of  tuition  which,  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  the  district  is  entitled  to  receive  for  each 
person  reported  as  having  been  a  member  of  the  school  from  such 
city,  town  or  village,  and  the  aggregate  sum  for  tuition  for  all  per- 
sons so  admitted  from  each  city,  town  or  village,  which  statement 
shall  be  filed  as  a  claim  against  the  town,  city  or  village  where  such 
person  resides,  and  allowed  as  other  claims  are  allowed.  (1913  c.  631) 

The  above  broadens  the  statute  relating  to  admission  of  non- 
resident pupils  to  free  high  schools.  It  must  be  noticed,  how- 
ever, that  it  does  not  permit  a  pupil  to  go  from  Wisconsin  into 
another  state  for  the  purpose  of  attending  a  high  school,  no  mat- 
ter what  the  advantages  for  so  doing  may  be  to  the  pupil,  if  it 
occurs  that  there  is  a  free  high  school  located  in  Wisconsin  that 
is  nearer  to  his  home  by  regular  traveled  route  than  the  one 
located  in  the  other  state. 

Agriculture  and  domestic  science  in  high  schools;    short  course. 

Section  49 6c — 4.  1.  Any  number  not  exceeding  twenty  high 
schools  offering  agriculture  or  domestic  science  courses,  under  the 
provisions  of  section  49 6d  of  the  statutes,  may  each,  under  such 
conditions  and  regulations  as  the  state  superintendent  of  schools 
may  prescribe,  establish  and  maintain  a  sixteen  weeks'  course  ii 
agriculture,  including  rural  economics,  or  domestic  science,  includ- 
ing home  economics,  or  both,  in  connection  with  such  high  school 
commencing  about  November  1st,  of  each  year  for  pupils  over 
fourteen  years  of  age;  provided,  that  this  special  course  shall  not 
be  approved  for  any  school  unless  the  teaching  force  shall  be  ade- 
quate to  properly  administer  all  courses  adopted  and  in  force  in 
such  school.  The  additional  teaching  force  needed  and  all  other  ex- 
pense  of  maintaining  such  courses  shall  be  provided  for  in  the  same 
manner  as  other  expenses  of  maintaining  such  high  school.  The 
salary  of  said  additional  teacher  or  teachers  shall  not  be  counted 
in  apportioning  the  general  special  aid  or  any  special  aid  for  ag- 
riculture or  domestic  science  for  a  school  administering  such  six- 
teen weeks'  course  in  agriculture  or  domestic  science.  The  tuition 
for  all  pupils  attending  such  sixteen  weeks'  course  shall  be  paid  by 

5— S.  L. 


66  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

the  town  at  the  same  rate  and  in  the  same  manner  as  is  provided 
by  section  496k  of  the  statutes,  except  that  no  diploma  or  certificate 
of  the  county  superintendent  of  completion  of  the  course  of  study 
in  the  district  shall  be  required. 

2.  Any  such  high  school  so  establishing  and  maintaining  such 
course  upon  complying  with  all  the  provisions  of  section  496c  of 
the  statutes  may,  upon  application,  be  placed  upon  an  approved 
list  of  schools  maintaining  such  short  course  in  agriculture  or  do- 
mestic science.  The  clerk  of  such  school  board  shall  make  report 
to  the  state  superintendent  at  the  same  time  and  in  the  same  man- 
ner and  form  as  required  by  section  496c  of  the  statutes.  Upon 
receipt  of  such  report,  if  it  appears  that  such  course  has  been 
maintained  in  a  manner  satisfactory  to  the  state  superintendent, 
at  least  eighty  minutes  daily  for  said  sixteen  weeks,  under  the  direct 
instruction  of  a  teacher  holding  a  special  license  from  the  state 
superintendent  to  teach  such  special  subject,  the  state  superintend- 
ent shall  make  a  certificate  to  that  effect  and  file  it  with  the  sec- 
retary of  state.  Upon  receiving  such  certificate  the  secretary  of 
state  shall  draw  his  warrant  for  the  sum  of  two  hundred  dollars 
for  each  of  the  special  courses  maintained,  the  sum  payable  in 
accordance  herewith  to  be  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  the  district 
maintaining  the  school;  provided,  that  the  total  amount  expended 
by  the  state  for  that  purpose  shall  not  exceed  eight  thousand  dol- 
lars in  any  one  year. 

Section  2.  There  is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  the  general  funds 
of  the  state  the  sum  of  eight  thousand  dollars  annually  for  the  pur- 
pose of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  section  496c — 4.  (1913  c.  63-r>) 
This  is  a  new  and  valuable  measure  and  will  appeal  especially 
to  high  schools  in  villages  and  the  smaller  cities. 

The  state  pays  the  teacher  a  certain  sum  in  certain  cases.  Sec- 
tion 560g — 1.  1.  Every  school  district  not  composed  wholly  or  in 
part  of  an  incorporated  village  or  city,  nor  containing  a  state  grad- 
ed school,  which  shall  maintain  a  school  or  schools  for  nine  months 
or  more,  and  have  provided  the  equipment  required  by  section  560g 
of  the  statutes,  and  which  shall  have  an  average  daily  attendance 
for  said  nine  months,  of  not  less  than  twenty  nor  more  than  forty 
pupils,  shall  be  deemed  to  have  maintained  a  school  of  the  first 
grade,  and  every  school  district  which  shall  have  maintained  the  first 
class  school  provided  by  section  560g  of  the  statutes,  Tor  nine 
months,  and  shall  have  an  average  minimum  daily  attendance  of 
not  less  than  fifteen  nor  more  than  twenty,  and  a  maximum  daily 
attendance  of  not  less  than  forty  nor  more  than  fifty  pupils,  shall 
be  deemed  to  have  maintained  a  school  of  the  second-  grade.  Any 


MAY  ADD  TO  TEACti&R'S  SALARY.  £7 

fechobl  district  which  desires  rural  school  state  aid  as  provided  by 
this  section  shall  make  application  in  writing,  as  provided  by  sec- 
tion 560j  of  the  statutes,  to  the  county  or  district  superintendent, 
specifying  in  addition  the  average  daily  attendance  and  furnishing 
the  name  of  the  teacher  and  a  copy  of  the  certificate  or  authority 
to  teach,  and  the  place,  date  and  amount  of  her  previous  teaching 
experience. 

2.  If  the  county  or   district  superintendent  and  the  state  rural 
school  inspector,  as  the  result  of  actual  inspection  of  the  school, 
and  the  work  of  the  teacher  during  the  year  for  which  aid  is  de- 
manded  shall   approve   of   the   application   they   shall   endorse   the 
same  and  remit  it  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction, 
who  shall  act  upon  the  applications  in  the  order  of  their  receipt. 
Thereupon  the  state  superintendent  shall  fix  the  amount  to  be  paid 
each  such  rural  school  complying  with  the  provisions  of  this  section, 
whose  application  shall  have  been  approved  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent, and  certify  the  same  to  the  secretary  of  state.     The  sec- 
retary of  state  shall  then  draw  his  warrant  upon  the  state  treasurer, 
for  the  several  claims  of  said  rural  schools,   made  payable  to  the 
treasurer  of  the  district  or  corporation  maintaining  such  approved 
school,  and  such  sums  shall  be  approtioned  by  said  district  treasurer 
direct  to  each  teacher  qualified  as  herein  provided  and  employed 
in  such  rural  school,  as  additional  compensation  as  follows: 

a.  To  each  first  grade  school  as  designated  herein  and  which  has 
been  taught  by  a  graduate  of  the  teachers'  course  at  the  university 
of  Wisconsin,  a  Wisconsin  state  normal  school,  or  other  equivalent 
school,  as  determined  by  the  state  board  of  examiners,  or  the  holder 
of  a  life  certificate,  and  who  has  had  at  least  one  year  of  successful 
teaching  experience,  and  has  taught  an  efficient  school  during  the 
year  for  which  aid  is   demanded,  ten   dollars  per  month   for  each 
such  teacher. 

b.  To  each  second  grade  school  as  designated  herein  and  which 
has  been  taught  by  a  teacher  holding  a  first  grade  certificate  and 
who  has  had  at  least  one  year's  successful  teaching  experience,  and 
has  taught  an  efficient  school  during  the  year  for  which  aid  is  de- 
manded, five  dollars  per  month  for  each  such  teacher. 

3.  The  state  superintendent  is  hereby  empowered  to  refuse  the 
additional  state  aid  provided  for  herein,  to  any  school  district  which 
in  his  judgment  has  failed  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this 
section. 

Section  172 — 55.  1.  The  whole  amount  annually  paid  under  the 
provisions  of  section  560g — 1  shall  not  exceed  twenty  thousand 
dollars,  and  if  more  be  demanded  by  said  rural  schools,  it  shall  be 


68  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    i9ll 

paid  proportionately.      Any  unexpended  balance  shall  revert  to  the 
general  fund.      (191.',  c.  <i.H>j 

This  is  a  new  statute  and  brings  the  state  into  close  relation 
with  school  teachers  having  charge  of  certain  one-room  schools 
equipped,  attended  and  conducted  in  a  certain  manner.  To  the 
casual  reader  it  will  doubtless  be  somewhat  difficult  of  interpre- 
tation, owing  to  the  use  of  the  word  "minimum."  The  conditions 
are  as  follows. 

a.  A  one-room  school  with   the  building  in  good  repair,  prop- 
erly seated,  heated,  lighted,  ventilated  and  kept  in  good  condition 
at  all  times  and  maintained  for  not  less  than  nine  months  during 
the  year. 

b.  The  teacher  must  hold  a  first  grade  county  superintendent 
certificate  or  be  a  graduate  of  the  Teachers'  Training  Course  of- 
fered in  the  State  University,  a  graduate  of  a  state  normal  school 
or  of  some  course  of  study  equivalent  to  that  required  for  grad- 
uation from  a  state  normal  school,  or  the  holder  of  a  life  state 
certificate  and   who  has  had   at   least  one   year  of  successful   ex- 
perience in  teaching. 

c.  The  school  must  be  efficient  during  the  year  for  which  state 
aid  is  demanded. 

d.  Satisfactory    evidence    to    the    effect   that    the   teaching    has 
been  efficient  and  the  law  fully  complied  with  must  be  filed  with 
the  state  superintendent. 

e.  A  school  of  the  second  grade  requires  that  the  teacher  shall 
hold   at  least  a  first  grade  county  certificate   and  shall   have  an 
average   daily    attendance  of   not  less  than   15   or   more   than  20, 
or   not   less   than   40   or   more   than   50.     The   school   of   the   first 
grade  requires  that  the  teacher  shall  hold  some  form  of  state  li- 
cense   or    state    certificate,    shall    be    maintained    and    efficiently 
taught  for  not  less  than  nine  months  and  shall  have  an  average 
daily  attendance  of  not  less  than  20  nor  more  than  40. 

f.  When  the  required  conditions  are  met,  the  state  will,  upon 
receipt  of  a  satisfactory  report  required  at  the  end  of  the  year, 
pay  to  the  teacher  of  a  school  of  the  first  grade  the  sum  of  $10 
per  month,  or  at  least  $90  in  addition  to  the  salary  paid  by  the 
district  under  her  contract. 

g.  When  the  required  conditions  are  met,  the  state  will,  upon 
receipt  of  a  satisfactory  report  required  at  the  end  of  the  year, 
pay  to  the  teacher  of  a  school   of  the  second  grade  the  sum  of 
$5  per  month,  or  at  least  $45  in  addition  to  the  salary  paid  by  the 
district  under  her  contract. 

The  purpose  of  this  law  is  to  encourage  school  district  boards 
to  secure  first-class  teachers  and  to  encourage  teachers  to  secure 
higher  qualifications  in  order  that  they  may  avail  themselves  of 
its  provisions.  It  is  not  intended  to  relieve  the  district  in  any 
way  from  the  burden  of  taxation  necessary  to  maintain  a  high 
class  school.  It  aims  to  secure  regular  attendance  on  the  part 
of  pupils  and  interest  on  the  part  of  the  parents  and  school  officers, 
and  efficient  work  from  the  teacher.  It  applies  to  one  room  schools 
only. 

Certain  applications  for  loans  validated.  (Section  430)  (5a). 
Applications  for  loans  to  school  districts  duly  authorized  prior  to 
the  passage  of  subdivision  5,  section  430  of  the  statutes  (Chapter 
302,  Laws  1913)  are  hereby  validated  and  relieved  of  the  restrictive 


UNIVERSITY    SOILS    LABORATORY.  69 

provision   relating  to   population   and   to   powers  of  supervisors  in 

force  at  that  time,      (1913  c.  61,1) 

Chapter  302.  laws  of  1913,  removed  certain  restrictions  hereto- 
fore existing  in  subdivision  5  of  section  430  of  the  statutes.  This 
latter  subdivision  restricted  the  amount  of  indebtedness  that 
could  be  voted  upon  a  district  by  fixing  a  certain  required  nuw- 
ber  of  people  residing  in  the  district.  Owing  to  the  present  cost 
of  building,  districts  found  themselves  handicapped  in  securing 
suitable  buildings  for  school  purposes.  The  old  statute  also  re- 
quired the  cooperation  of  the  town  board  of  supervisors  in  cer- 
tain cases.  This  provision,  as  well  as  the  provision  relating  to 
school  population,  is  removed. 

State  soils  laboratory.  Section  392em — 8a.  1.  The  regents  of 
the  state  university  shall  establish  a  state  soils  laboratory  in  connec- 
tion with  the  college  of  agriculture. 

2.  So  far  as  possible  the  state  soils  laboratory  shall  make  use  of 
the  rooms,  apparatus  and  supplies  of  the  department  of  soils  of  the 
college  of  agriculture  and  of  the  services  of  the  instructional  labo- 
ratory and  the  field  staff  of  the  department.     When  necessary  to  the 
proper  carrying  out  of  the  provision  of  this  section,  to  secure  the  use 
of  accommodations,  apparatus  and  supplies  other  than  those  available 
in  the  department  of  soils  or  to  secure  the  services  of  university  or 
other  state  employees  not  employed  in  the  department  of  soils,  the 
regents  shall  cause  to  be  made  such  arrangements  as  may  be  nec- 
essary to  provide  the  accommodations,  apparatus,  supplies  or  services 
required. 

3.  It  shall  be  the  purpose  and  the  duty  of  the  state  soils  laboratory 
to  make  field  examinations  and  laboratory  analyses  of  the  soil  of 
any  land  in  this  state  and  to  certify  to  the  results  of  such  examina- 
tions and  analyses  upon  the  request  of  the  owner  or  the  occupant 
of  the  land  and  the  payment  by  him  of  the  fee  or  fees  hereinafter 
prescribed. 

4.  For  services  rendered  under  this  section  the  state  soils  lab- 
oratory shall  charge  the  person  requesting  such  services  a  fee  which 
shall  be  calculated  as  follows: 

(1)  For  the  field  examination  and  the  chemical  analysis  of  the 
soil  of  any  tract  of  land  not  exceeding  one  hundred  sixty  acres  in 
area,  when  requested  by  one  person,  five  dollars. 

(2)  When  the  tract  of  land  exceeds  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
for  each   additional  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  or  part  thereof, 
or  for  each   additional   field  examination  and  chemical   analysis  of 
the  soil,  when  requested  by  one  person,  three  dollars. 

(3)  Whenever  five  or  more  residents  in  any  organized  town  shall 
request   such    field   examination   or   chemical   analysis,    or   both,    of 
land  owned  by  such  persons  in  such  town,  the  charge  to  each  per- 


70  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

son,  for  the  service  stated  in  subdivision  (1)  of  this  subsection, 
shall  be  three  dollars  and  for  the  service  stated  in  subdivision  (2) 
of  this  subsection  shall  be  two  dollars;  and  the  soils  laboratory 
shall  upon  the  request  of  such  persons  for  whom  such  examinations 
and  analyses  are  made,  and  without  additional  charge,  send  a, 
representative  to  such  community,  who  shall  give  a  full  and  com- 
plete explanation  of  such  examination  and  analysis,  the  purposes  for 
which  such  soils  may  be  used  and  the  manner  in  which  such  lands 
may  be  improved. 

5.  The  state  soils  laboratory  shall  make  an  annual  report  of  its 
work  to  the  dean  of  the  college  of  agriculture,  and  the  dean  of  the 
college  of  agriculture  shall  include  these  reports  verbatim  or  in 
summarized  form  in  his  biennial  report  to  the  regents  of  the  uni- 
versity in  such  manner  as  to  show: 

(1)  The  number  of  requests  made  for  the  services  of  the  labor- 
atory; 

(2)  The  number  of  requests  complied  with; 

(3)  The  fees  received  by  the  laboratory; 

(4)  The  expense  of  conducting  the  laboratory;    and 

(5)  Such   other   facts    as   may   be   necessary   in    judging   of   the 
value  of  the  work  done  by  the  laboratory. 

(Section  172 — 53)  25.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July 
1,  two  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general 
fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the  agricultural  college  income 
fund  for  the  state  soils  laboratory  to  carry  into  effect  the  provi- 
sions of  section  392em — 8a. 

26.  All  moneys  received  by  the  state  soils  laboratory  in  carry- 
ing out  the  provisions  of  section  392em — 8a,  shall  be  paid  within 
one  week  of  receipt  into  the  agricultural  college  income  fund  of 
the  state  treasury  and  all  moneys  so  deposited  are  appropriated 
for  said  laboratory  to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  section 
392em — 8 a.  (1913  c.  646) 

The  above  statute  will  be  of  interest  to  persons  interested  in 
agriculture  or  the  purchase  of  land  who  desire  to  have  a  prelim- 
inary examination  made  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the  char- 
acter of  the  soil. 

Truant  officers;  duties;  penalties.  Section  439cd.  1.  Truant 
officers  in  cities  of  the  first,  second  and  third  classes  shall  receive 
such  compensation  as  shall  be  fixed  by  the  boards  of  education  of 
such  cities  or  boards  having  similar  powers. 

2.  The  chief  of  police  and  the  police  officers  of  cities  of  the 
fourth  class  may  perform  the  duties  of  truant  officers  in  addition 
to  the  other  duties  devolving  upon  them,  and  shall  receive  no  extra 
or  additional  compensation  therefor. 


TRUANT    OFFICERS—DUTIES— PENALTIES.  71 

3.  When  the  sheriff,  undersheriff  and  his  deputies  are  acting  as 
truant  officers  as  provided  herein,  they  shall  be  paid  the  same 
fees  as  provided  for  such  officers  in  criminal  actions  brought  under 
the  laws  of  this  state,  and  in  counties  where  the  sheriff  and  dep- 
uties are  paid  an  annual  salary  they  shall  receive  their  actual  and 
necessary  expenses  incurred  in  the  performance  of  their  duties  as 
truant  officers,  but  no  extra  compensation  shall  be  allowed. 

Section  439ce.  Each  county  and  city  superintendent  of  schools 
shall  report  to  the  *  *  *  industrial  commission  and  to  the 
proper  truant  officer  within  ten  days  after  the  close  of  each  month 
commencing  with  the  month  of  *  *  *  October  and  conclud- 
ing with  the  month  of  *  *  *  May  in  each  year,  the  name  of 
each  child  residing  in  the  county,  district,  or' city  under  his  super- 
vision who  during  said  month  has  not  complied  with  the  provisions 
of  section  *  *  *  43 9a  *  *  *  of  the  statutes,  and  the 
name  and  postoffice  address  of  the  parent  or  guardian  of  such 
child.  If  any  county  or  city  superintendent  has  no  names  of  de- 
linquent children  to  report  for  any  month  as  provided  in  this  sec- 
tion, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  superintendent  promptly  to  notify 
the  industrial  commission  of  that  fact.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
each  county  and  city  superintendent  of  schools  to  require  suitable 
monthly  reports  from  the  teachers  under  his  jurisdiction  in  order 
to  assist  each  superintendent  in  preparing  the  aforesaid  reports. 
Immediately  upon  serving  the  notice  as  provided  in  sections  439b 
and  439cc  of  the  statutes  upon  the  parent  or  guardian  of  any  child, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  truant  officer  to  notify  the  teacher  of 
such  child  of  such  service.  The  return  of  the  child  to  school  shall 
be  promptly  reported  by  the  teacher  to  the  truant  officer  and  su- 
perintendent. It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  truant  officer  to  make 
a  report  each  month  to  the  industrial  commission,  showing  the 
action  taken  by  him  in  the  cases  of  delinquency  reported  to  him 
by  the  superintendent.  Blanks  for  reports  by  superintendents  to 
the  industrial  commission  and  to  the  truant  officer  shall  be  fur- 
nished by  the  industrial  commission. 

Section  439cf.  Any  superintendent  of  schools  or  any  truant  offi- 
cer who  violates  or  fails  to  comply  with  any  of  the  provisions  of 
sections  439b,  439cb,  439cc,  and  439ce  of  the  statutes  shall  be 
subject  to  a  forfeiture  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty- 
five  dollars  for  each  such  offense,  which  on  complaint  of  the  in- 
dustrial commission  may  be  recovered  against  such  superintendent 
or  truant  officer  in  an  action  in  debt  brought  by  the  attorney  gen- 
eral  before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction.  (1913  c.  650) 

This  law  is  of  direct  interest  to  all  truant  and  school  officers. 
Although  a  statute  to  be  enforced  under  the  direction  of  the  in- 
dustrial commission,  it  is  given  a  place  here  for  the  sake  of 
greater  publicity. 


72  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

Special  aid  for  manual  training,  domestic  economy,  or  agricul- 
ture. (Section  496c)  3.  Upon  receiving  such  certificate  the  sec- 
retary of  state  shall  draw  his  warrant  for  one-half  the  amount  ac- 
tually expended  for  instruction  in  each  department  established  un- 
der sections  496b  and  496c  during  the  year  for  which  the  state  aid 
is  received,  not,  however,  to  exceed  three  hundred  and  fifty  dol- 
lars for  each  department  established  under  sections  496b  and  496c 
and  496c — 3  which  shall  have  been  maintained  in  connection  with 
the  high  school  and  the  *  *  *  two  upper  grades  next  below 
the  high  school,  but  not  to  exceed  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars 
for  each  department  established  under  sections  496b  and  496c 
which  shall  have  been  connected  with  only-  the  high  school.  Pro- 
vided, however,  that  no  one  school  district  shall  receive  aid  in  any 
one  year  for  more  than  three  such  departments.  The  sum  payable 
in  accordance  herewith  to  be  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  the  dis- 
trict or  corporation  maintaining  the  school  for  the  year  ending  June 
30,  1913,  and  thereafter;  provided,  that  the  total  amount  expended 
for  such  purpose  shall  not  exceed  *  *  *  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars  in  any  year  which  is  hereby  appropriated  from  any  moneys 
in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated.  (1913  c.  656) 

State  geological  and  natural  history  survey.  Section  3921- — 1. 
1.  The  geological  and  natural  history  survey  is  directed  to  exam- 
ine the  the  lands  of  the  northern  part  of  the  stat<3  and  classify 
them  in  accordance  with  their  mineral  content  and  geological  and 
other  evidences  of  the  presence  of  mineral.  The  classification 
shall  be  made  in  a  manner  to  be  agreed  upon  by  the  state  tax  com- 
mission and  said  survey,  and  as  rapidly  as  the  classification  of 
each  separate  township  is  completed,  the  detailed  report  of  such 
township  shall  be  furnished  to  the  tax  commission. 

2.  The  said  geological  and  natural  history  survey  is  authorized 
to  enter  upon  any  and  all  lands  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  geo- 
logical  examination   thereof   by   persons    competent   to    make   such 
examination,  and  to  require  the  owner  or  lessor  of  such  lands  to 
open  to  their  inspection  for  the  purposes  of  this  act  all  records  re- 
lating to  the  presence  of  minerals  and  furnish  for  inspection  copies 
of  such  maps  and  plats  as  may  be  in  his  possession. 

3.  Said  geological  and  natural  history  survey  is  directed  to   ex- 
amine the   mines  and  explored  mineral  lands  of  the  state  by  per- 
sons competent  to  make  such  examinations  and  make  an  accurate 
determination  of  the  amount  of  ore  therein,  the  expense  of  mining, 
the  probable  life  of  the  mine,  and  such  other  factors  as  may  be 
necessary,   in   the  judgment  of  the  state   tax   commission   and  the 
geological    and    natural    history    survey,    for    a    proper    valuation 


SPECIAL  AID-  MANUAL,  TRAINING,  ETC.  73 

thereGi.  For  the  purpose  of  this  investigation  all  books,  inven- 
tories, waybills,  maps,  plats,  correspondence,  and  memoranda  re- 
lating to  or  used  in  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  any  person, 
co-partnership  or  corporation  owning  or  operating  any  such  mine 
or  explored  mineral  land,  shall  on  demand  by  the  geological  and 
natural  history  survey,  or  its  authorized  representative,  be  open  to 
its  or  his  inspection  or  examination.  Any  such  person,  co-partner- 
ship or  corporation  owning  or  operating  any  mine  or  explored  min- 
eral lands  shall  furnish  for  inspection  to  the  geological  and  nat- 
ural history  survey,  upon  request,  copies  of  all  maps  and  plats  that 
relate  to  the  workings  of  his  or  its  mine  or  mines  and  to  his  or 
its  explored  mineral  lands. 

4.  Said  geological  and  natural  history  survey  is  further  directed 
to  investigate  the  water  powers  of  the  state  by  carefully  gauging 
the  flow  of  the  streams,    by  making  surveys  of  the  profiles  of  the 
streams,   by  a  study  of  the   effect  of  the   drainage   of   lands   upon 
the  flow  of  streams,  and  by  such  other  investigations  as  may  prove 
necessary  and  expedient. 

5.  Any   officer,    agent,    clerk   or   employe   of   said   survey  or  said 
tax  commission   who  shall   divulge  or  make  known  to  any  person 
except  the  officers   of  said  survey  or  said  tax  commission,  in  any 
manner,    directly   or   indirectly,    any   information   whatsoever   given 
to  him  ip.  the  discharge  of  his  duties  under  subsections   2   and  3 
of  this  section,  which  information  shall  have  been  given  him  with 
the  request  that  it  be  not  divulged,  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall 
be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty  dollars  nor  more  than 
five  hundred   dollars,    or   by   imprisonment   in   the   county   jail   for 
not  less   than   one  month   nor   more   than   six   months,   or   by   im- 
prisonment in  the  state  prison  for  not  more  than  two  years  in  the 
discretion    of   the   court;    provided,    that   nothing   herein   contained 
shall  prevent  the  use  for  assessment  purposes  of  any  information 
obtained  under  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Section  172 — 24.  3.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1,  1913, 
and  on  July  1,  1914,  the  sum  of  twenty-eight  thousand  dollars 
payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  ap- 
propriated for  the  geological  and  natural  history  survey,  to  carry 
into  effect  the  provisions  of  sections  3921 — 1,  392k — 1  and  sub- 
section 2  of  section  3921.  Of  the  above  appropriation  two  thou- 
sand dollars  shall  be  set  aside  each  year  for  soil  survey  as  provided 
for  in  section  392k — 1.  (1913  c.  672) 

Industrial  school  appropriation.  (Section  553p — 6)  1.  Not 
more  than  ten  thousand  dollars  shall  be  appropriated  from  the 
"state  funds  for  the  purposes  of  sections  553p — 1  to  553p — 9,  in- 


74  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1!)13. 

elusive,  and  section  553p — 15  *  *  *  in  any  one  city,  town, 
or  village,  and  state  aid  shall  not  be  given  to  more  than  *  *  * 
forty-five  schools  established  under ,  said  sections. 

Section  3.  There  is  added  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1913, 
to  the  sum  which  was  appropriated  by  chapter  616,  laws  of  1911, 
for  the  payment  of  state  aid  to  continuation  schools,  out  of  any 
money  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  the  sum 
of  thirty-seven  thousand  dollars,  making  the  total  amount  available 
for  payment  of  state  aid  to  continuation  schools  organized  and 
maintained  according  to  the  provisions  of  chapter  616,  laws  of 
1911,  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1913,  the  sum  of  sixty-two 
thousand  dollars. 

(Section  172 — 49)  1.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July 
first,  to  the  state  board  of  industrial  education  out  of  any  money 
in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  a  sum  not  to  ex- 
ceed one  hundred  fifty  thousand  dollars,  to  carry  into  effect  the 
provisions  of  sections  553p — 1  and  553p — 3  to  553p — 9,  inclusive, 
and  section  553p — 15.  No  part  of  this  appropriation  shall  be  avail- 
able as  state  aid  to  continuation  schools  for  the  school  year  end- 
ing June  30,  1913.  (1913  c.  677) 

Section  553p— 1  to  553p — 9  will  be  found  under  the  heads  of 
Industrial,  Commercial,  Continuation  and  Evening  Schools: 
Board  of  Industrial  Education,  etc.  Pages  243  to  250  of  the  school 
code,  Edition  1911.  The  law  relating  to  state  industrial  education 
was  passed  by  the  legislature  of  that  year. 

County  schools  of  agriculture;  $15,000  for  school  building.  Sec- 
tion 553 — 2.  1.  The  county  board  of  any  county  may  acquire  by 
purchase,  gift  or  bequest,  land  for  a  county  school  of  agriculture. 

2.  Immediately  after  the  county  board  votes  to  acquire  or  accept 
land  for  the  purpose  of  a  county  school  of  agriculture,  the  county 
clerk  shall,  notify  the  dean  of  the  college  of  agriculture. 

3.  Within   thirty   days  after  the  receipt  of  the  notification,    the 
dean  of  the  college  of  agriculture,  the  secretary  of  state   and  the 
state    superintendent    of    education,    acting    as    a    committee,    shall 
inspect  the  proposed  site  in  person  or  by  deputy   to   determine  the 
size   and   appropriateness.     If   the   site  is   approved  by  them   state 
aid  shall  be  granted  for  the  maintenance  of  the  school  under  the 
following  conditions: 

(a)  The  county  board  of  education  shall  control  the  county  ag- 
ricultural  schools   established   under   this   act.     State   aid   shall    be 
granted  only  on  compliance  with  the  rules  as  to  reports  and  char- 
acter of   work  applying  to   agricultural  schools. 

(b)  Any  school  established  under  this  act  whose  course  of  study 
and  the  qualifications  of  whose  teachers  are  approved  by  the  state 


SCHObLS— $15,OM  tfott  BUlLbiNCL  73 

Superintendent  and  the  dean  of  the  college  of  agriculture,  may, 
upon  application,  be  placed  upon  an  approved  list  of  county  schools 
of  agriculture  and  domestic  economy  to  be  known  as  the  "special 
state  aid  list  for  county  schools  of  agriculture."  Not  more  than 
three  schools  shall  be  added  to  such  list  in  any  one  year. 

(c)  Not  more  than  one  school  shall  be  established  in  any  sen- 
atorial district,  unless  on  the  first  day  of  September  of  any  year, 
there  are  no  approved  applications  for  such  schools  from  counties 
in  senatorial  districts  in  which  there  are  no  county  schools  of  ag- 
riculture. 

4.  State  aid  to  the  amount  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars  shall  be 
paid  to   a   county  establishing  a  school  under  this  act,  but  coun- 
ties may  appropriate  additional  money  for  the  organization,  equip- 
ment and  maintenance  of  the  school,  and  state  aid  shall   be  paid 
only  when  it  is  proved  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  state  superintend- 
ent that  the  money  has  been  expended  properly  in  the  building  of 
the  school.     The  application  for  and  payment  of  state  aid  under 
this  section  shall  be  made  in  the  manner  provided  in  section  5531 
of  the   statutes,   but   no   application   shall  be   received  before  Jan- 
uary 1,   1914. 

5.  Every   county  agricultural   school   shall   receive   from   moneys 
appropriated  for  this   purpose   state   aid  annually  as  follows:      If 
average  daily  attendance  is   (a)   one  hundred  or  less,  six  thousand 
dollars;    (b)    between  one  hundred  and  one  hundred  and  fifty,  seven 
thousand;    (c)   if  over  one  hundred  and  fifty,  eight  thousand  dollars. 

6.  State  aid  granted  under  this  act  does  not  prejudice  the  right 
of  the  school  to  any  other  state  aid  to  which  it  is  entitled,. 

(Section  172 — 63)  4.  There  is  annually  appropriated  not  to 
exceed  forty-five  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the 
general  fund  received  from  state  railroad  taxes,  not  otherwise  ap- 
propriated, as  state  aid  for  county  agricultural  school  buildings 
as  provided  in  section  5531 — 2.  ' 

5.  There  is  annually  appropriated  such  sums  as  may  be  neces- 
sary, payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise 
appropriated,  as  state  aid  for  maintenance  of  general  instruction 
in  the  county  agricultural  schools  as  provided  in  section  5531 — 2. 
(WI3  c.l  11) 

This  chapter  is  of  special  interest  to  boards  of  supervisors  in 
counties  where  county  schools  of  agriculture  and  domestic  science 
are  to  be  established. 

County  board  of  education.  Section  702 — 1.  There  is  hereby 
created  a  board  of  education  for  each  county  in  the  state  of  Wis- 
consin, to  be  known  as  the  county  board  of  education,  consisting 
of  five  members  to  be  chosen  as  hereinafter  provided: 


7$  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,   1913. 

Section  702 — 2.  The  county  board  of  education  district  shall 
include  the  entire  county,  excepting  only  such  portion  thereof  as 
is  included  within  any  city  having  a  board  of  education,  a  super- 
intendent of  schools,  or  other  board  or  officer  vested  with  power 
to  examine  and  license  teachers  and  supervise  and  manage  the 
schools  therein,  and  in  counties  now  having  more  than  one  super- 
intendent district  each  such  district  shall  constitute  a  county  board 
of  education  district.  The  electors  of  such  city  shall  have  no  vote 
in  electing  the  county  board  of  education,  and  the  county  super- 
visors from  such  city  shall  have  no  voice  in  any  matter  relating 
to  said  board  or  the  members  thereof,  nor  shall  any  tax  be  levied 
in  such  city  to  pay  any  part  of  the  expense,  compensation  or  al- 
lowances of  such  board,  the  members  thereof  or  the  county  super- 
intendent or  assistant  county  superintendent  or  the  clerk  for  the 
superintendent,  or  examiners  for  common  school  diplomas. 

Section  702 — 3.  Any  person  resident  within  the  county  board 
of  education  district,  qualified  to  vote  at  elections  pertaining  to 
school  matters,  shall  be  eligible  to  membership  on  said  board. 

Section  702 — 4.  At  the  regular  spring  election  to  be  held  on 
the  first  Tuesday  of  April,  1914,  there  shall  be  elected  in  each 
county  board  of  education  district  five  members  of  such  county 
board  of  education.  At  the  first  meeting  after  the  said  election 
the  members  of  such  board  shall  cast  lots  to  determine  who  shall 
serve  for  a  term  of  one  year,  who  for  a  term  of  two  years,  who  for 
a  term  of  three  years,  who  for  a  term  of  four  years,  and  who  for 
a  term  of  five  years,  respectively.  Except  as  to  those  members 
whose  first  term  shall  be  fixed  by  lot,  as  aforesaid,  at  one,  two, 
three,  four  and  five  years,  the  terms  of  office  of  each  member  of 
such  board  shall  be  five  years  and  until  his  successor  is  elected 
and  qualified,  and  one  member  shall  be  elected  each  year  follow- 
ing the  year  1914. 

Section  702 — 5.  Every  person  residing  within  the  county  board 
of  education  district  qualified  to  vote  at  elections  pertaining  to 
school  matters  shall  be  qualified  electors  at  ejections  for  members 
of  the  county  board  of  education. 

Section  702 — 6.  The  candidates  to  be  voted  for  as  members  of 
the  county  board  of  education  shall  be  nominated  as  provided  in 
section  30  of  the  statutes,  and  such  election  shall  be  noticed  and 
held  and  returns  thereof  made  in  the  manner  now  provided  by  law 
for  the  election  of  county  judicial  officers. 

Section  702 — 7.  Vacancies  occurring  in  the  county  board  of 
education  shall  be  filled  by  the  board.  The  members  so  elected  to 
fill  such  vacancies  shall  serve  until  the  next  regular  election,  at 


COUNTY  BOARD  OP  EDUCATION.          77 

which  time  the  vacancies  shall  be  filled  for  the  unexpired  term 
in  the  same  manner  a,s  is  provided  herein  for  the  election  of  the 
members  of  such  board  for  the  full  term. 

Section  702—8.  On  the  first  Tuesday  in  May,  after  the  election 
in  April,  1914,  and  annually  thereafter,  such  board  shall  meet  at 
the  county  seat  and  organize  by  electing  one  of  the  members  as 
president.  Such  president  shall  serve  for  one  year  and  until  his 
successor  shall  be  chosen  and  shall  have  qualified.  A  majority  of 
the  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum.  The  clerk  for  the  county 
superintendent  whose  appointment  is  hereinafter  provided  shall  be 
ex  officio  secretary  of  the  board,  but  in  case  no  such  clerk  is  serv- 
ing them  the  county  board  of  education  shall  elect  one  of  its  mem- 
bers secretary. 

Section  702 — 9.  The  regular  meetings  of  the  county  board  of 
education  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Tuesday  in  May  and  on  the 
last  Friday  in  October  of  each  year.  Special  meetings  shall  be 
called  by  the  secretary  upon  the  order  of  the  president  or  upon  the 
order  of  any  two  other  members  of  the  board  by  giving  at  least 
six  days'  written  notice  by  mail  of  the  time  and  place  of  such  meet- 
ing to  each  member  of  the  board  and  to  the  county  superintend- 
ent of  schools.  All  meetings  shall  be  held  at  the  county  seat,  ex- 
cept that  by  the  unanimous  consent  of  all  the  members  of  the 
board  meetings  may  be  held  elsewhere  in  the  county.  All  mem- 
bers of  the  county  board  of  education  shall  be  allowed  and  paid 
the  per  diem  and  mileage  as  provided  in  section  695  of  the  stat- 
utes for  members  of  the  county  board  of  supervisors;  but  no  mem- 
ber of  said  board  shall  receive  compensation  for  his  extra  services 
as  member  of  such  board  for  more  than  fifteen  days  in  any  one 
year,  provided  the  limitation  of  the  number  of  days  for  which  the 
member  of  the  county  board  of  education  may  receive  compensa- 
tion shall  not  include  the  numbers  of  days  necessarily  spent  in 
performing  the  duties  as  outlined  in  subdivision  (3)  of  section 
702—10. 

Section  702 — 10.  The  powers  and  duties  of  the  said  board  of 
education  shall  be  as  follows: 

(1)  The  county  board  of  education  may  appoint  at  least  one 
assistant  superintendent  from  a  list  of  three  persons  submitted  by 
the  county  superintendent  in  all  cases  where  there  are  more  than 
one  hundred  schools  in  the  county  board  of  education  district. 
The  qualifications  of  such  assistant  superintendents  shall  be  the 
same  as  is  now  required  by  law  of  county  superintendents;  the 
term  of  office  shall  be  two  years,  and  the  compensation  of  said 
assistant  superintendents  shall  be  fixed  by  the  county  board  of  edu- 


78  scttooL  LAW  SuPtLtiMfiN't,  i9iS. 

cation.  Any  person  appointed  as  assistant*  county  superintend- 
ent of  schools  shall  have  power  to  perform,  under  the  direction  and 
supervision  of  the  county  superintendent  of  schools,  all  the  duties 
now  imposed  by  law  on  the  county  superintendent  except  licensing 
teachers  and  annulling  certificates.  Said  assistant  superintendent 
shall  be  subject  to  removal  by  the  board. 

(2)  The  county  board  of  education,  upon  the  nomination  of  the 
county   superintendent,    may   appoint   a   clerk,    subject   to    removal 
by  the  board,  for  the  county  superintendent  of  schools.,  fix  his  sal- 
ary, and  define  his  powers  and  duties. 

(3)  The  county  board  of  education  shall  have  full  power  and  au- 
thority to  form,  organize,  alter  or  consolidate  school   districts,  and 
shall  be  vested  exclusively  with  all  the  power   and  authority  now 
exercised  by  town  boards,  village  boards  of  trustees  and  city  coun- 
cils, in  the  formation  and  organization  of  districts,  and  in  the  con- 
solidation  and   alteration  of  them,  with  the  right  of  appeal   by  any 
person  aggrieved  thereby  to  the  state  superintendent  from  its  de- 
cision as  now  provided  by  law.     In  case  it  becomes  necessary  to 
organize,   alter,   or   consolidate   school   districts  affecting  cities   un- 
der   city    superintendents,    or    adjoining    county    or    counties    over 
which   the   county   superintendent   shall   have   no   jurisdiction,   then 
and  in  that  case  the  city  council,  or  county  board  of  education  of 
such  adjoining  county  or  counties,  shall  have  a  voice  and  vote  in 
such  organization,  alteration  or  consolidation,  as  is  now   provided 
by  law  for  the  formation  of  joint  school  districts.     The  said  county 
board  of   education   in  exercising  its  authority  as  granted  in   this 
section  shall  follow  the  procedure  as  now  provided  in  the  law  for 
the    organization,    alteration    or    consolidation    of    school    districts. 
The  county  board  of  education  shall  have   discretionary  power  to 
authorize  parents  or  guardians  living  nearer  to  a  school  in  an  ad- 
joining  district,   to   send  their  children   to   the  nearer  school.     In 
such  cases  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  school  board  of  the  district 
in  which  the  parents  or  guardians  of  the  children  live  to  pay  the 
district   where   the  children   attend  tuition  at  the  rate   not  to   ex- 
ceed the  maximum  fixed  by  law. 

(4)  The  county  board  of  education  may  appoint,  upon  the  nom- 
ination  of  the   county   superintendent,   a   board  of  examiners,   not 
to  exceed   five  persons,  for  the  common  school  diplomas,  prescribe 
its  duties,  fix  the  compensation  of  its  members  as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided,  and  may  limit  the  number  of  days  in   any  year  for  which 
any  member  of  said  board  of  examiners  may  receive  compensation. 

(5)  Each  member  of  the  county  board  of  education  shall  devote 
not  less  than  two  days  in  each  year  to  visiting  and  inspecting  rural 


CbtikfY 

schools,  but  no  member  shall  receive  a  per  diem  for  more  than 
five  days  of  such  visitation  and  inspection.  Each  member  shall 
attend  at  least  one  of  the  annual  meetings  of  the  school  board 
conventions  of  the  county. 

(6)  The  county  board  of  education  shall,  on  or  before  August 
15th,  make  and  transmit  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction an   annual   report  date^  June    30   of  each   year  showing 
such  facts  regarding  the  business   and  educational   administration 
of  the  schools  within  the  county  board  of  education  district  as  he 
shall  require. 

(7)  The    county   superintendent   and    his    assistants    shall   make 
such  reports  to  the  county  board  of  education  as  it  may  deem  nec- 
essary. 

(8)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  superintendent  to  attend 
the  meetings,   unless  excused  by  the  board,   and  to  act  as  an  ad- 
visory member  of  such  board.     Said  superintendent  when  in  attend- 
ance at  such  meetings  shall  have  all  the  privileges  of  members  of 
the  board  excepting  the  right  to  vote. 

(9)  The  county  board  of   education   shall  fix  the  salary  of  the 
county  superintendent  of  schools,   but  in  no  case  shall  it  be  less 
than    one    thousand    dollars,    excluding    traveling    expenses    and    ex- 
penses for  printing,  postage,  and  stationery. 

(10)  The   county   board  of   education   is   hereby   authorized   to   ex- 
ercise all   the   powers   and   privileges   conferred   by   law   upon   the 
county  training  school   board   by  sections   411 — 1   to   411 — 11,   in- 
clusive, of  the  statutes,  and  upon  the  county  school  board  by  sec- 
tions 553c  to  553m,  inclusive,  of  the  statutes,  if  the  county  board 
of  supervisors  shall  so  determine. 

(11)  At  the  regular  meetings  in  May  and   October  the  county 
board  of  education  shall  audit  and  allow  the  county  superintendent 
and  his  assistant  or  assistants  traveling  expenses,  and  expenses  of 
postage,   printing  and  office  supplies,   as  shall  be   incurred   in   the 
discharge  of  their  duties,  but  the  county  board  of  education  shall 
have   power   to   limit  annually   or   semi-annually   the  amount   that 
shall  be  expended  for  such  purposes;    and  at  such  meetings  shall 
audit   and   allow   to   the   members  of   the   board   of   examiners   for 
common  school  diplomas,  if  such  have  been  appointed,  a  per  diem 
of  three  dollars  and  mileage  at  the  rate  of  six  cents  per  mile  for 
travel  necessarily  performed   in   the   discharge  of  their  duty;    and 
also  at  said  meetings  shall  audit  and  allow  the  per  diem  and  mile- 
age allowed  to   the  members   of  the  board  by  section   702 — 9. 

(12)  The  county  board  of  education  shall  provide  for  the  pay- 
ment of  the  salaries  of  the  county  superintendent,  and  his  assist- 
ant or  assistants  in  twelve  equal  instalments. 


80  SCHOOL  LAW  SUPPLEMENT,  1912. 

(13)  The  county  board  of  education  shall,  at  its  meeting  to  bu 
held  on   the   last  Friday   in   October   of   each   year,    determine   the 
amount  of  money  which  will  be  necessary  for  the  purpose  of  carry- 
ing  out   the   provisions  of  sections   702 — 1   to   702 — 12,   inclusive, 
for  the  ensuing  year.     On  or  before  the  first  Monday  in  November, 
in  each  year,  the  county  board  of  education  shall  report  the  total 
amount  required  to  the  county  clerk  who  shall  report  the  same  to 
the  county  board  of  supervisors  at  its  annual  meeting  in  November, 
and  such  amount  shall  be  levied  in  the  county  tax  and  collected  as 
other  taxes,  and  shall  be  set  aside  by  the  county  treasurer  as  a  sep- 
arate fund  to  be  paid  out  by  him  upon  the  orders  of  the  county 
clerk  issued  in  accordance  with  schedules  submitted  to  him  by  the 
county  board  of  education,  which  schedules  shall  give  the  names 
of  persons,  the  amounts  due  each  and  the  purposes  for  which  is- 
sued. 

(14)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  board  of  education,  on 
or  before  the  last  Friday  in  October  of  each  year,  to  file  with  the 
county  board  of  supervisors  an  itemized  statement  of  the  receipts 
and   disbursements  of  all  funds   coming  under  its  jurisdiction   for 
the  preceding  school  year  ending  the  thirtieth  day  of  June.     The 
report    when    filed    shall    be    published   in   the   proceedings    of   the 
county  board  6f  supervisors  and  shall  be  filed  with  the  county  clerk. 

Section  702 — 11.  State  aid  in  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars 
shall  be  .granted  each  county  board  of  education  district  each  year, 
but  such  aid  shall  be  granted  only  after  the  state  superintendent 
shall  have  certified  to  the  secretary  of  state  that  the  annual  re- 
port of  the  county  board  of  education  has  been  received  and  ac- 
cepted by  the  state  superintendent  of.  public  instruction;  and  that 
the  county  superintendent  of  schools  shall  have  furnished  the  state 
superintendent  his  annual  report  at  the  time  required  by  law,  and 
not  later  than  the  thirtieth  day  of  June  each  year,  such  other  facts 
concerning  the  schools  in  his  county  as  may  have  been  required 
by  the  state  superintendent,  and  shall  have  forwarded  such  com- 
munications, bulletins  and  publications  to  the  school  district  offi- 
cers or  the  teachers  of  the  schools  in  the  county  as  may  have  been 
requested  by  the  state  superintendent  or  as  may  be  required  by 
law.  Upon  the  receipt  of  such  certificate  from  the  state  superin- 
tendent, the  secretary  of  state  shal)  draw  his  warrant  for  five  hun- 
dred dollars  on  the  state  treasurer  in  favor  of  the  county  treasurer 
of  the  county  containing  the  county  board  of  education  district 
and  said  sum  shall  be  forwarded  to  be  placed  in  the  separate  fund 
created  by  subdivision  (13)  of  section  702 — 10,  but  the  state  su- 
perintendent or  the  governor  may  at  any  time  cause  to  be  made 


HOLIDAYS— CLERK'S   COMPENSATION.  81 

an  audit  of   all  the  school  accounts  kept  by  the  county  board  of 
education  of  any  county  board  of  education  district  in  the  state. 

Sectin  702 — 12.  The  law  now  in  force  and  effect  relating  to 
the  election,  qualifications,  powers  and  duties  of  the  county  super- 
intendent of  schools  shall  be  in  full  force  and  effect  and  in  no 
way  repealed  or  modified  by  sections  702 — 1  to  702 — 12,  inclusive, 
save  as  herein  specifically  set  forth  in  said  sections. 

Section  702 — 13.  There  is  annually  appropriated  out  of  any 
money  in  the  treasury,  not  otherwise  appropriated,  a  sum  suffi- 
cient to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  section  702 — 11  of  the  statutes. 
(191S  c.  751) 

The  above  provides  a  method  of  administration  of  school  af- 
fairs in  each  county  that  is  entirely  new  in  this  state.  The  elec- 
tors must  next  April  select  irom  among  the  residents  of  the  county 
five  persons,  to  be  elected  by  the  electors,  men  and  women,  of  the 
county  at  the  time  and  places  of  holding  the  regular  town  meet- 
ings on  the  first  Tuesday  in  April.  The  statute  is  plain  in  de- 
claring certain  duties  that  may  be  performed  by  this  board.  It 
is  also  clear  that  the  duties  of  the  board  as  a  board  may  be 
larger  and  more  comprehensive  in  those  counties  where  there  is 
a  county  training  school  for  teachers  and  a  county  school  of  ag- 
riculture than  in  other  counties  where  these  institutions  do  not 
exist.  It  will  be  noted  that  whether  or  not  their  duties  are  en- 
larged in  such  counties  depends  upon  the  action  of  the  county 
board  of  supervisors. 

Washington's  and  Lincoln's  birthday  observance.  Section  2577. 
The  first  day  of  January,  the  twenty-second  day  of  February,  the 
fourth  day  of  July,  the  twenty-fifth  day  of  December,  the  thirtieth 
day  of  May,  the  day  appointed  by  the  governor  as  labor  day,  or  by 
him  or  the  president  of  the  United  States  as  a  day  of  public  thanks- 
giving in  each  year,  and  the  day  of  holding  the  general  election 
are  legal  holidays;  and  whenever  *  *  *  any  of  said  days  shall 
fall  on  Sunday  the  succeeding  Monday  *  *  *  shall  be  the  legal 
holiday;  provided,  however,  that  appropriate  special  exercises  may 
be  held  in  all  schools  for  one-half  day  on  February  12  and  on 
February  22.  (19 IS  c.  761) 

This  chapter  does  not  make  February  12th— Lincoln's  birthday — 
a  legal  holiday. 

Compensation  to  district  clerk.  (Section  462)  Seventh.  Such 
other  facts  and  statistics  in  relation  to  the  schools,  public  or  private, 
in  such  district  as  the  state  superintendent  may  from  time  to  time 
require.  The  clerk  of  each  joint  district  shall  report  to  the  county 
or  city  superintendent,  as  the  case  may  be,  the  number  of  children 
residing  in  each  part  of  the  several  towns,  villages  or  cities,  em- 
braced in  such  joint  districts.  He  shall  also  report  the  amount  of 


82  SCHOOL  LAW  SUPPLEMENT,  1911 

the  indebtedness  of  the  district.  Upon  filing  with  the  county  sii* 
perintendent  within  the  time  set  by  law,  a  complete  and  satisfactory 
annual  report  setting  forth  all  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be  re- 
ported to  the  county  or  city  superintendent,  and  such  other  infor- 
mation as  may  be  called  for  by  either  the  county  or  *  *  *  city 
superintendent,  the  school  district  clerk  in  a  school  district  main- 
taining one  or  more  schools  in  one  or  more  separate  school  buildings 
and  not  containing  an  incorporated  village  or  city,  and  having  a 
school  census  of  *  *  *  one  hundred  persons  or  less  shall  be 
paid  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  of  the  school  district 
treasury  of  which  he  is  clerk,  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  for  each  one 
room  school  maintained  by  the  district;  provided,  such  schools  are 
more  than  a  mile  and  a  half  apart,  the  distance  to  be  measured  by 
the  nearest  traveled  highway.  In  a  school  district  maintaining  one 
or  more  separate  schools  in  separate  buildings  and  not  containing 
an  incorporated  village  or  city  and  having  a  school  census  of  more 
than  one  hundred  persons  and  less  than  two  hundred  persons,  twenty 
dollars  for  the  first  school  and  an  additional  ten  dollars  -for  each 
separate  school  maintained  in  a  separate  building  by  the  district, 
provided,  that  such  schools  are  more  than  a  mile  and  a  half  apart, 
the  distance  to  be  measured  by  the  nearest  traveled  highway.  In 
a  school  district  maintaining  one  or  more  separate  schools  in  sepa- 
rate buildings,  and  not  containing  an  incorporated  village  or  city 
and  having  a  school  census  of  more  than  two  hundred  persons  and 
less  than  three  hundred  persons,  thirty  dollars  for  the  first  school 
and  an  additional  ten  dollars  for  each  separate  school  maintained 
in  a  separate  building  by  the  district;  provided,  that  such  schools 
are  more  than  a  mile  and  a  half  apart,  the  distance  to  be  measured 
by  the  nearest  traveled  highway:  *  *  *  and  in  school  dis- 
tricts having  a  school  census  of  more  than  three  hundred  persons 
of  school  age,  or  containing  an  incorporated  village  or  city,  such 
sum  as  the  body  electing  the  school  board  of  such  school  district 
may  direct;  provided,  such  school  clerk  shall  file  with  the  district 
treasurer  a  certificate  signed  by  the  county  or  city  superintendent 
of  schools  setting  forth  that  the  school  census  for  the  year  was 
properly  taken,  and  that  all  reports  required  by  law  to  be  made  by 
school  district  clerks  have  been  filed  and  approved.  (1913  c.  76,r>) 

The  provisions  of  this  chapter  render  void  all  previous  provi- 
sions of  the  statutes  fixing  the  compensation  of  school  district 
clerks.  The  electors  or  board  of  education  in  districts  where 
there  is  an  incorporated  village  or  a  school  census  of  more  than 
300  persons,  are  privileged  to  fix  the  amount  of  compensation 
which  shall  be  paid  to  the  district  clerk  for  his  services.  In  all 
other  districts,  however,  the  compensation  is  fixed  by  the  above 
statute.  In  cases  where  the  school  population  is  more  than  300 
or  an  incorporated  village  or  a  city  comprise  part  or  all  of  the 


COUNTY  INSTITUTES.  88 

district,  the  district  clerk  should,  when  sending  his  report  to  the 
county  superintendent,  attach  thereto  a  sworn  statement  of  the 
amount  of  compensation  voted  to  him  by  the  electors  or  by  'the 
board  of  education.  This  is  necessary  in  order  that  the  superin- 
tendent may  know  what  sum  to  place  in  the  certificate  which  he 
returns  with  his  approval  of  the  annual  report. 

Teachers'  county  institutes.  Section  461m.  *  *  *  The 
teachers'  county  institute  appropriation  *  *  *  shall  be  used 
under  the  direction  of  the  county  or  district  superintendent  in 
defraying  the  necessary  expenses  of  conducting  annually  one  or 
more  teachers'  institutes  for  the  instruction  of  the  teachers  of  his 
county  or  district  in  school  management,  in  methods  of  teaching, 
and  in  branches  taught  in  the  common  schools,  and  in  compensa- 
tion for  lectures  at  such  institutes  when  said  lectures  are  given  by 
other  than  the  conductors  or  the  county  or  district  superintendent. 

Section  4  6  In.  No  money  shall  be  paid  by  the  county  or  district 
superintendent  of  schools  for  the  services  of  any  instructor  or  lec- 
turer or  to  any  person  from  *  *  *  the  appropriation  for  county 
institutes,  *  *  *  unless  said  person  is  the  holder  of  a  certifi- 
cate signed  by  the  state  superintendent  certifying  that  the  committee 
on  institutes  of  the  board  of  regents  of  normal  schools  approve  of 
such  person  as  a  competent  institute  conductor. 

Section  461o.  The  appropriation  referred  to  in  *  *  *  sec- 
tion 461m  shall  be  distributed  among  the  counties  of  the  state  in 
just  proportion  to  the  number  of  teachers  actually  required  and  em- 
ployed in  the  territory  under  the  supervision  of  the  county  or  dis- 
trict superintendent  in  giving  instruction  in  the  schools  of  said 
county  or  superintendent  district  for  a  term  of  not  less  than  seven 
months  during  each  year,  unless  failure  to  maintain  such  school  or 
schools  for  such  term  shall  have  been  caused  by  the  destruction  of 
the  schoolhouse  or  by  the  order  of  the  school  district  board,  or 
the  local  or  state  board  of  health,  on  account  of  the  prevalence  of  a 
contagious  disease. 

Section  461p.  The  county  or  district  superintendent  of  schools 
shall  between  the  first  and  tenth  days  of  July  in  each  year  make 
a  statement  upon  oath  to  the  state  superintendent,  giving  the  exact 
number  of  teachers  in  all  the  public  schools  of  his  district  when 
they  are  all  in  session.  When  the  sworn  statements  from  all  the 
county  or  superintendent  districts  have  been  received  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent  to  apportion  the  appropriation 
*  *  *  mentioned  in  section  461m  *  *  *  among  the  dif- 
ferent counties  of  the  state  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  legally 
qualified  teachers  actually  engaged  in  teaching  under  the  provisions 
and  restrictions  of  this  chapter,  and  certify  said  sum  to  the  sec- 


84'  SCHOOL   LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

retary  of  state,  who  shall  thereupon  draw  his  orders  upon  the  state 
treasury  in  favor  of  the  different  county  or  district  superintendents 
for  the  sum  so  certified. 

Section  461q.  The  county  or  district  superintendent  shall  keep 
an  itemized  account  of  all  the  expenditures  made  from  the  appro- 
priation *  *  *  in  his  superintendent  district,  said  account  to 
accompany  the  statement  provided  for  in  section  461p.  (1913  c.  722) 

The  above  is  a  part  of  chapter  772  and  is  placed  here  in  order 
that  its  provisions  may  be  convenient  for  the  direction  of  county 
superintendents. 


BOARD  OF  HEALTH  RULES.  §5 


RUJLES  RELATING  TO  THE  SANITARY  CARE  OF  SCHOOLS 

Under  the  authority  granted  by  section  1408  of  the  statutes, 
authorizing  the  state  board  of  health  to  adopt  and  enforce  rules 
for  the  proper  sanitary  care  of  schoolhouses  and  the  premises 
connected  therewith,  the  state  board  of  health  hereby  publishes  and 
declares  the  following  rules  to  be  of  general  application  through- 
out the  state.  These  rules  were  officially  adopted  by  the  state  board 
of  health  on  January  29,  1913. 

Rule  17.  All  teachers,  school  authorities  and  health  officers 
having  jurisdiction  shall  not  permit  the  attendance  in  any  private, 
parochial  or  public  school  of  any  pupil  afflicted  with  a  severe  cough, 
a  severe  cold,  itch,  lice  or  other  vermin,  or  any  contagious  skin  dis- 
ease, or  who  is  filthy  in  body  or  clothing,  or  who  has  any  of  the  follow- 
ing dangerous  contagious  or  infectious  diseases,  to-wit:  Diphtheria, 
smallpox,  scarlet  fever,  measles,  whooping-cough,  chicken-pox, 
mumps,  pulmonary  tuberculosis,  Asiatic  cholera  (cholerine),  yellow 
fever,  typhus  fever,  bubonic  plague,  cerebro-spinal  meningitis  or 
acute  anterior  poliomyelitis.  The  teachers  in  all  schools  shall,  with- 
out delay,  send  home  any  pupil  who  is  obviously  sick  even  if  the 
ailment  is  unknown,  and  said  teacher  shall  inform  the  parents  or 
guardians  of  said  pupil  and  also  the  local  health  officer  as  speedily 
as  possible,  and  .said  health  officer  shall  examine  into  the  case  and 
take  such  action  as  is  reasonable  and  necessary  for  the  benefit  of 
the  pupils  and  to  prevent  the  spread  of  infection. 

Rule  18.  Parents,  guardians  or  other  persons  having  control  of 
any  child  who  is  .sick  in  any  way,  or  who  is  afflicted  with  any  dis- 
ease listed  in  Rule  17,  shall  not  be  permit  said  child  to  attend  any 
public,  private  or  parochial  school  or  to  be  present  in  any  public 
place. 

Rule  19.  School  teachers,  pupils  or  other  persons  shall  not  be 
admitted  to  any  public,  private  or  parochial  school  who  have  come 
from,  or  who  reside  in  any  house  or  building  which  harbors,  or 
is  infested  with  any  disease  listed  in  Rule  17,  or  who  have  recently 
been  afflicted  with  such  diseases,  unless  they  have  the  written  per- 
mission of  the  local  health  officer  having  jurisdiction. 

Rule  20.  Schoolhouses  shall  have  in  each  class-room  at  least 
fifteen  square  feet  of  floor  space  and  not  less  than  two  hundred 


86  SCHOOL  LAW   SUPPLEMENT,    1913. 

cubic  feet  of  air  space  per  pupil,  and  shall  provide  for  an  approved 
system  of  indirect  heating  and  ventilation,  by  means  of  which  each 
class-room  shall  be  supplied  with  fresh  air  at  the  rate  of  not  less 
than  thirty  cubic  feet  per  minute  for  each  pupil,  and  warmed  to 
maintain  an  average  temperature  of  70  degrees  Fahr.  during  the 
coldest  weather. 

Rule  21.  Local  health  officers  having  jurisdiction  shall  dismiss 
forthwith  any  school-room  in  which  at  least  200  cubic  feet  of  air 
space  is  not  supplied  to  each  pupil.  The  school  authorities  shall, 
without  delay,  make  provisions  for  the  pupils  in  accordance  with 
the  requirements  stated  in  Rule  20. 

Rule  22.  Proper  ventilation  must  be  provided  in  all  school-rooms 
and  when  ventilation  ducts  do  not  exist,  or  are  inadequate,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  teacher  to  flood  the  school-room  with  fresh  air 
by  opening  windows  and  doors  at  recess  and  noon  time  and  also 
whenever  the  air  becomes  close  and  foul.  Pupils  should  be  given 
gymnastic  exercises  during  the  time  the  windows  are  open  in  cold 
weather. 

When  windows  are  the  only  means  of  ventilation,  they  should  be 
so  constructed  as  to  admit  of  ready  adjustment  both  at  the  top  and 
bottom,  and  some  device  shall  be  provided  to  protect  the  pupils 
from  currents  of  cold  air.  The  top  of  the  windows  shall  be  as  near 
the  ceiling  as  the  mechanical  construction  of  the  building  will  allow. 

Rule  23.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  school  board,  board  of 
school  directors,  board  of  education,  or  other  school  officials,  in 
Wisconsin,  to  use  a  common  heating  stove  for  the  purpose  of  heat- 
ing any  school-room,  unless  each  such  stove  shall  be  in  part  en- 
closed within  a  shield  or  jacket  made  of  galvanized  iron  or  other 
suitable  material,  and  of  such  height  and  so  placed  as  to  protect 
all  pupils  while  seated  at  their  desks  from  direct  rays  of  heat. 

Rule  24.  Light  shall  be  admitted  from  the  left  or  from  the  left 
and  rear  of  class-rooms.  The  glass  area  of  windows  shall  equal  at 
least  one-fifth  of  the  floor  area  of  the  school-room,  and  no  pupil 
shall  be  farther  removed  from  the  principal  source  of  light  than 
twenty-five  feet. 

Rule  25.  All  floors  must  be  thoroughly  swept,  or  cleaned  by  a 
vacuum  cleaner  each  day,  either  after  the  close  of  school  or  in  the 
afternoon,  or  one  hour  before  the  opening  of  school  in  the  morning. 
Before  sweeping  is  started  the  floors  must  be  sprinkled  with  water, 
moist  sawdust,  or  other  substance  so  as  to  prevent  the  raising  of 
dust. 


BOARD  OF  HEALTH  RULES.  87 

Rule  26.  All  schoolhouses  must  be  supplied  with  pure  drinking 
water.  If  the  drinking  water  is  obtained  from  wells,  satisfactory 
troughs  and  drains  must  be  provided  so  as  to  carry  away  the 
waste  water  and  prevent  the  creation  of  mud-holes  near  the  open- 
ing of  the  well.  When  water  is  not  supplied  at  the  pump,  from 
water  faucets,  or  from  sanitary  flowing  drinking  fountains,  covered 
tanks  or  covered  coolers,  with  free  flowing  faucets,  must  be  supplied. 
All  drinking  fountains  should  be  constructed  of  smooth  glass  or 
pressed  metal. 

Rule  27.  Water  closets,  dry  closets  and  outhouses  shall  be  kept 
clean  and  sanitary  at  all  times.  Water  closets  and  dry  closets, 
when  provided,  shall  be  efficient  in  every  particular,  and  when  said 
closets  are  not  provided,  then  good  fly-tight,  well  ventilated  out- 
houses for  both  sexes,  separated  by  closely  built  fences,  shall  be 
provided.  Good  dry  walks  shall  lead  to  all  outhouses,  and  closely 
built  screens,  or  shields  shall  ,be  built  in  front  of  them.  Outhouses 
for  males  shall  have  urinals  arranged  with  stalls,  and  with  con- 
duits of  galvanized  iron,  or  other  impervious  material,  draining 
into  a  sewer,  vault,  or  other  suitable  place. 

Rule  28.  Health  officers  shall  enforce  these  rules,  and  promptly 
enter  prosecution  for  any  violation  thereof. 

NOTE.  In  order  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  Rule  20, 
regarding  heating  and  ventilation,  the  state  board  of  health  makes 
the  following  recommendations  with  reference  to  the  installation 
of  heating  and  ventilating  systems  in  new  buildings  or  in  buildings 

P-vhere  a  change  must  be  made  in  the  system: 
1.  In  a  gravity  system  of  ventilation  in  connection  with  a  furnace 
or  steam  plant  the  flues  for  admitting  fresh  air  to  the   room  must 
have  a  horizontal  area  of  not  less  than  one  square  foot  for  each 
nine  persons  that  the  room  will  accommodate. 

2.  The   flues   for  a   fan  system   of  ventilation  shall  have  a  hori- 
zontal area  of  not  less  than  one  square  foot  for  each  fifteen  persons 
that  the  room  will  accommodate.     The  ventilation  of  school  build- 
ings by  this  system   must  be  so  designed  that  the   air  pressure  in 
any  class-room  will  be  in  excess  of  that  of  the  outside  air. 

3.  The  introduction  of  cold  air  from  the  outside  of  the  building 
at  the   base   of  a   direct   radiator   known   as   the   "direct   indirect" 
system  of  ventilation  must  not  be  used. 

4.  One  or  two  room  buildings,  heated  by  hot  air,  stoves,  or  fur- 
naces, should  have  a  cold  air  intake,  the  cross  section  of  which  is 


8£  SCHOOL  LAW  SUPPLEMENT,  1913. 

equal  to  0.004  of  the  floor  area  of  the  room  or  rooms  heated.     The 
vent  flues  should  have  a  net  area  equal  to  that  of  the  cold  air  intake. 

The  above  rules  formulated  by  the  State  Board  of  Health  rank 
equally  with  statutes  passed  by  the  state  legislature.  They  are 
printed  in  this  connection  for  the  purpose  of  giving  general  in- 
formation to  school  officers  and  possibly  to  teachers  and  others, 
enabling  them  to  understand  what  are  the  powers  and  duties  of 
local  health  officers,  members  of  school  boards,  teachers  and  parents, 
to  be  performed  in  connection  with  the  schools.  The  State  Board 
of  Health  proposes  to  publish  the  above  regulations  and  a  number 
of  others  in  pamphlet  form,  to  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  teach- 
ers, by  the  county  superintendent.  These  rules  are  especially  valu- 
able and  should  at  once  be  read  and  studied  by  school  officers  and 
teachers  whether  in  city  or  village  or  country  districts. 


TO  THE  READER 

In  reading  or  studying  the  laws  in  this  pamphlet  it  must  be  clearly 
understood  that  in  all  cases  where  the  provisions  of  a  later  act  are 
in  conflict  with  provisions  of  an  earlier  act  the  provisions  of  the 
later  act  must  be  considered  as  repealing  the  conflicting  provisions 
of  the  earlier  act: 

That  practically  all  the  sections  referred  to  and  not  printed  in 
this  pamphlet  can  be  found  arranged  in  numerical  order  in  the 
school  code  of  1911; 

That  the  code  of  1911  or  the  Revised  Wisconsin  Statutes  for 
1911  should  be  consulted  and  read  in  certain  cases  in  order  that 
some  of  the  laws  in  this  pamphlet  be  clearly  understood: 

That  this  pamphlet  is  school  district  property  to  be  cared  for 
by  the  clerk  and  may  be  loaned  to  any  elector  in  the  district; 

That  the  office  of  the  State  Superintendent  at  Madison  is  at  all 
times  ready  and  willing  to  answer  questions  relating  to  schools  and 
school  law  and  to  cooperate  with  the  local  authorities  in  all  ways 
possible  to  advance  the  educational  interests  of  the  community 
and  the  state. 


INDEX 


Page 

ACCIDENTS— prevention  of  18 

AID— 

agriculture  and  domestic  science  short  course 65-66 

consolidation   of   districts — transportation 31 

county  board  of  education 75-80 

county    institutes    

county  schools  of  agriculture — for  building 74 

county   training   schools 10,  45 

day  school  for  deaf  and  defective  speech  children 

free  high   schools 54-56 

high  school  stenography,  typewriting,  etc 

high  school  training  department 

high  school  winter  term '      26 

industrial  schools 74 

manual  training,  domestic  economy,  in  high  schools 72 

state  graded  schools — agriculture  and  transportation 46 

to  counties  for  agricultural  representative 63 

to  county  board  of  education 80 

to  teachers  in  certain  cases 66-68 

ALTERATION   OF   DISTRICT   BOUNDARIES   AND   DISSOLU- 
TION OP  JOINT  DISTRICTS 59 

BLUE  BOOKS    , 4 

CERTIFICATES  AND  LICENSES 

from  county    training    school 34 

from  high  school  training  departments 54 

state   teachers 47-49 

CHANGING  FORM  OF  SCHOOL  GOVERNMENT  IN  CERTAIN 

CASES    44 

CHILD  LABOR  LAW 60-62 

COMPENSATION— 

county  board  of  education  members 79 

county  superintendents 39 

district    clerks 36,  82 

district  treasurers  and  directors 10,  37 

Milwaukee  school  directors 58 

teachers 35 

truant    officers 20,  71 


90  INDEX. 

Pagb 

CONDEMNATION  OP  SCHOOL  BUILDINGS 7 

CONSOLIDATION   OF   DISTRICTS 28,  31 

appropriation    for 31 

special  aid  for  buildings 28-31 

transportation    30-31 

CITIES 

form  of  government — how  changed 44 

COUNTY  SUPERVISORS 

to  provide  for  county  agricultural  representative 62-64 

may  acquire  land  for  county  school  of  agriculture 74,  75 

may  make  application  for  state  aid  to  erect  building 74,  75 

may  confer  authority  upon  the  county  board  of  education  to 

take  charge  of  the  county  training  school  for  teachers. . .  79 

COUNTY    TRAINING    SCHOOLS— JOINT 10 

COUNTY  TRAINING  SCHOOL  FOR  TEACHERS 

certificates — value  of 34 

aid    for 45 

DAY  SCHOOLS  FOR  THE  DEAF 26 

DAY  SCHOOLS  FOR  DEFECTIVE  SPEECH  CHILDREN 26 

DISSOLUTION  OF  UNION  FREE  HIGH  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS. .  5,  23 

DRINKING    CUPS 15 

EMPLOYMENT   OF   CHILDREN 60-62 

EQUALIZATION  OF  TAXES— JOINT  DISTRICTS • 32 

EXAMINATIONS— 

teachers — branches    examined    in 13 

teachers — county  superintendent  to  hold 23 

HIGH  SCHOOLS— 

aid  for  agriculture,  etc 65-66 

meetings   

stenography,  typewriting  and  bookkeeping 27 

training  department  for  teachers 40-43 

tuition 24,  49,  64 

winter  term    25 

HOLIDAYS — Washington's  and  Lincoln's  birthday  observance. .  81 

HUMANE  EDUCATION 45 

INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOLS— STOUT  INSTITUTE 18-20 

appropriation 73-74 


INDEX.  91 

Page 
LIBRARY  BOOKS— 

exchange    of 

ownership  of  in  certain  cases 

to  be  rebound 15 

LIQUOR— SALE    OF    FORBIDDEN 17 

LOANS  TO  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS 21,  57,  68 

MILWAUKEE  SCHOOL  BOARD— 

may  make  application  to  borrow  money  (Milwaukee  county)  51 
Milwaukee  Board  of  Directors  to  put  money  into  Milwaukee 

Teachers'    Insurance   fund 50 

salaries  of  school  board  members 58 

NORMAL  REGENTS— MEETING  OF 17 

PENALTIES— 

superintendent     : 

truant    officers 71 

PROFESSIONAL  SCHOOL  DEFINED 43 

READING  ROOM— PUBLIC  LIBRARIES 40-43 

REPORTS— 

by  town  and  union  free  high  schoolboards 12 

SCHOOL  BOARDS— 

may  establish  courses  in  agriculture  and  domestic  science  in 

high  schools 65 

may  establish  teachers'  training  departments  in  high  schools  40,  52 
may  provide  for  agriculture  and  domestic  science  in  state 

graded  schools 46 

must  provide  suitable  outbuildings 87 

to  allow  use  of  school  buildings 12 

to  allow  teachers  to  attend  conventions 22 

to  apply  for  special  aid  for  manual  training,  domestic  sci- 
ence,   etc 72 

to  apply  for  state  aid 54 

to  aopoint  truant  officers . . . 20 

to  charge  high  school  tuition 24,  50 

to  furnish  '  sweeping  compound 22 

to  have  library  books  rebound 15-17 

to  make  contract  with  parents  for  transportation  of  children  31 

to  pay  teachers  at  least  $40  per  month 35 

to  pay  high  school  tuition  in  other  states 64 

to  provide  for  course  in  stenography,  etc.,  in  high  schools..  27 

to  provide  for  election  to  consolidate  school  districts 28 

to  publish  reports  for  town  and  union  high  schools 12 

to  suspend  pupils  unclean  or  affected  by  contagious  disease. .  85 

SCHOOL  BUILDINGS— USE  OF  BY  ASSOCIATIONS 12 

STATE  FLAG  .  12 


92  INDEX. 

STATE  GRADED  SCHOOLS— 

special  aid  lor  agriculture  and  transportation 46 

STATE  SUPERINTENDENT   56 

STATE  UNIVERSITY— 

geological  survey  72 

meetings  of  board  of  regents •. 17 

pharmacy  department   32 

state  soils  laboratory  69 

TAX  FROM  COUNTY  FARM  LANDS 9 

TEACHERS'  INSURANCE— MILWAUKEE   ,  50 

TEACHERS'  SALARY 35,  66 

TOBACCO—  USE  OF  FORBIDDEN 9 

TOWN  AND  DISTRICT  LIBRARIES— 

books  to  be  rebound 15 

county  clerk  to  draw  orders  for  payment  to  firm  furnishing 

books   14 

county  superintendent  to  certify  to  county  clerk 14 

county  superintendent  to  keep  list  of  books 14 

TOWN  BOARD  OF  SUPERVISORS 

to  act  in  altering  boundaries  of  school  districts 59 

TRAINED    NURSE— COUNTIES    MAY  APPOINT 10 

TRAINING  SCHOOL  FOR  ORAL  TEACHERS  OF  THE  DEAF.  . .  8 

TUITION— NONRESIDENTS— 

free  high  schools 24,  64 

independent  high  schools  49 

UNION  FREE  HIGH  SCHOOLS  DISTRICTS— DIVISION  OF. ...  24 

UNIVERSITY  REGENTS— MEETING  OF 17 

to  elect  county  agricultural  representative 62-64 


YC  0658! 


UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA  LIBRARY 


